Object Details
- publisher
- Wilkes, Charles
- original artist
- Peale, Titian Ramsay
- graphic artist
- Dougal, William H.
- printer
- Sherman, Conger
- author
- Cassin, John
- Description (Brief)
- This engraved printing plate was prepared to print an image of "Pleiodus strigirostris" (now Didunculus strigirostris - Tooth-billed Pigeon or Samoan Pigeon) for the publication "United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842," Volume 8, Mammalogy and Ornithology, plate 34, in the edition Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1858. The engraving was produced by W. H. Dougal after T. R. Peale.
- Description
- William H. Dougal (1822–1895) of New York and Washington, D.C., (after 1844) engraved this copper printing plate after a drawing by Expedition Naturalist Titian Ramsey Peale. The image depicts the Pleiodus strigirostris (now Didunculus strigirostris, Tooth billed pigeon or Samoan Pigeon). The engraved illustration was published as Plate 34 in Volume VIII, Mammalogy and Ornithology, by John Cassin, 1858.
- 1858
- ID Number
- 1999.0145.414
- catalog number
- 1999.0145.414
- accession number
- 1999.0145
- Object Name
- plate
- plate, printing
- Object Type
- Engraving
- Physical Description
- metal, copper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 43.4 cm x 28.7 cm; 17 1/16 in x 11 5/16 in
- Place Made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Associated Place
- Samoa
- Related Publication
- The United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
- Related Web Publication
- http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/usexex/index.htm
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Natural Resources
- Science & Mathematics
- Art
- Wilkes Blocks
- Measuring & Mapping
- National Museum of American History
- related event
- U.S. Exploring Expedition
- Record ID
- nmah_600653
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-1ee0-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
