Object Details
- publisher
- Wilkes, Charles
- original artist
- Peale, Titian Ramsay
- graphic artist
- Hinshelwood, Robert
- printer
- Sherman, Conger
- author
- Cassin, John
- Description (Brief)
- This engraved printing plate was prepared to print an image of "Ptilonopus Perousei" (now Many-colored Fruit Dove, Ptilinopus perousii Peale (S. polynesia)) for the publication "United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842," Volume 8, Mammalogy and Ornithology, plate 33, in the edition Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1858. The engraving was produced by Robert Hinshelwood after T. R. Peale.
- Description
- Robert Hinshelwood (1812–after 1875) of New York City engraved this copper printing plate after a drawing by Expedition Naturalist Titian Ramsey Peale. The image depicts the Ptilonopus Perousei (now Many-colored Fruit Dove, Ptilinopus perousii Peale [S. polynesia]). The engraved illustration was published as Plate 33 in Volume VIII, Mammalogy and Ornithology, by John Cassin, 1858.
- 1858
- ID Number
- 1999.0145.413
- catalog number
- 1999.0145.413
- accession number
- 1999.0145
- Object Name
- Plate
- plate, printing
- Object Type
- Engraving
- Physical Description
- metal, copper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 43.3 cm x 28.8 cm; 17 1/16 in x 11 5/16 in
- Place Made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Associated Place
- Polynesian
- 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_600652
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-1dd8-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
