Object Details
- publisher
- Wilkes, Charles
- original artist
- Peale, Titian Ramsay
- graphic artist
- Rawdon, Wright, Hatch and Edson
- printer
- Sherman, Conger
- author
- Cassin, John
- Peale, Titian Ramsay
- Description (Brief)
- This engraved printing plate was prepared to print an image of "Procellaria nivea" (now Pagodroma nivea - Snow Petrel) for the publication "United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842," Volume 8, Mammalogy and Ornithology, plate 42, in the edition Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1858. The engraving was produced by Rawdon, Wright, Hatch and Edson after T. R. Peale.
- Description
- The firm of Rawdon, Wright, Hatch and Edson (1830s–1850s) of New York City prepared this copper printing plate after a drawing by Expedition Naturalist Titian Ramsey Peale. It depicts the Procellaria nivea (now Pagodroma nivea or Snow Petrel). The engraved illustration was published as Plate 42 in Volume VIII, Mammalogy and Ornithology, by John Cassin, 1858.
- 1858
- ID Number
- 1999.0145.422
- accession number
- 1999.0145
- catalog number
- 1999.0145.422
- Object Name
- plate
- plate, printing
- Object Type
- Engraving
- Physical Description
- metal, copper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 43.7 cm x 28.8 cm; 17 3/16 in x 11 5/16 in
- Place Made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Associated Place
- Antarctica
- Related Publication
- The United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
- Related Web Publication
- http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/usexex/index.htm
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- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Natural Resources
- Art
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- Measuring & Mapping
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Science & Scientific Instruments
- related event
- U.S. Exploring Expedition
- Record ID
- nmah_600661
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-2e04-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
