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Mary Anning (1799-1847)
Oil on board, 75 x 60 cm.
Mary Anning lived in the coastal town of Lyme Regis and spent
many years fossil hunting and collecting specimens that she
would sell in her shop. Many of her fossils were new to science
and of great significance in the development of palaeontology.
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