Note: This historical image is not a factually accurate dinosaur restoration.
Reason: Outdated tripodal posture, Tyrannosaurus had two fingers (not three as pictured), skull-shape is wrong, reversed hallux.
You may ask further questions about the accuracy of this image at the image review page of WikiProject Dinosaurs on the English Wikipedia. Note that this image may be appropriate to illustrate obsolete paleontological views.
Summary
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This is a scale model of a Tyrannosaurus rex exhibit which was planned by the American Museum of Natural History but never executed. The image was published in a 1913 paper written by Museum president Henry Fairfield Osborn, who died in 1935.
Date
Source
Source: Osborn, H.F. 1913. Tyrannosaurus: restoration and model of the skeleton. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 32: 91-92. (download here)
Author
Osborn, H.F.
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Licensing
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The author died in 1935, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or fewer.