About this Image
This lithograph appeared as one of nine plates in an article by James Deane, published in 1849 in the "Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences" (New Series, vol. 4, no. 1). It is also a Eubrontes track, but Deane did not use any names in this article. The track was singled out from a much larger slab of numerous tracks (also reproduced in the article) found by Deane's friend and neighbor, Dexter Marsh. Of the plates, Deane said: "I propose to illustrate these footprints by presenting copies, selected from the most perfect and beautiful examples. The drawings were put upon the stone by myself, with the utmost care, and I have attempted to compensate for the lack of artistic execution by producing faithful transcripts of the originals." Unlike Hitchcock, Deane thought that lithographs (and, later, photographs) did give reliable reproductions ("transcripts") of the fossils.
