Desmostylus (Original)

Desmostylus art by Bernard Long
Desmostylus art by Bernard Long

Desmostylus (Original)

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Artist: Bernard Long
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 11" x 7" (280mm x 190mm)
Date: 1982
Code: LongDes

This is the unique original Gouache painting by Bernard Long.

Often described as hippopotamus-like because of its heavily built quadrupedal body,‭ ‬Desmostylus is a peculiar mammal.‭

Palaeontologists are still unsure how Desmostylus is related to other mammals with theories covering a wide range of options from being related to elephants,‭ ‬to hippopotamuses to just being a separate side branch of mammals that left no modern descendants.

Desmostylus is widely believed to have been a semi aquatic animal in that it regularly entered the water,‭ ‬but would return to land to rest.‭ The remains of Desmostylus are known from across most of the northern Pacific Rim from Japan and Russia to the west coast of the United States.

Published in the book Prehistoric Animals by Long and Rupert Oliver.
  • Artist Biography
    Bernard Long (born 1926)
    Bernard Long was an accomplished British book illustrator and comic book artist. Long was a contributor to Jack & Jill, drawing the light-hearted adventures of Fliptail the Otter in around 1970, and to the Jack & Jill and Teddy Bear annuals. He was an extraordinarily talented and reliable contributor to many Amalgamated Press/ Fleetway/ IPC titles and the Young Telegraph during the 1990s.

    He was an exceptionally good nature artist and it seems very likely he contributed to various educational magazines as well as nursery comics. It is thought that he contributed to Look and Learn in the late 1960s and back page artwork for Fun-To-Do in later years, for which information I should thank David Slinn, who recalls that Long was "quietly efficient, very reliable and, as a result, somewhat taken for granted."

    His extensive bibliography includes:
    Prehistoric Animals, by Rupert Oliver (London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1982 ISBN 0-340-27165-5)
    Prehistoric Man, by Rupert Oliver (London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1983 ISBN 0-340-28608-3)
    Dinosaurs, by Rupert Oliver (London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1983 ISBN 0-340-28609-1)
    Strange and Curious Creatures, by Rupert Oliver (London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1984 ISBN 0-340-34718-X)
    Monster Mysteries, by Rupert Matthews (Hove, Wayland, 1988 ISBN 1-85210-354-X)
    Lost Treasures, by John Wright (Hove, Wayland, 1989 ISBN 1-85210-357-4)
    Victorian Children, by Anne Steel (Hove, Wayland, 1989 ISBN 1-85210-816-9)
    Egyptian Farmers, by Jim Kerr (Hove, Wayland, 1990 ISBN 1-85210-906-8)
    The First Settlements, by Rupert Matthews (Hove, Wayland, 1990 ISBN 1-85210-769-3)[1]
    Greek Cities, by Barry Steel (Hove, Wayland, 1990 ISBN 1-85210-778-2)
    Plague and Fire, by Rhoda Nottridge (Hove, Wayland, 1990 ISBN 0-7502-0048-0)
    Forests, by Michael Chinery (London, Kingfisher, 1992 ISBN 0-86272-915-7)
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