Object Details
- publisher
- Wilkes, Charles
- original artist
- Hitchcock, W. E.
- graphic artist
- Dougal, William H.
- printer
- Sherman, Conger
- author
- Cassin, John
- Peale, Titian Ramsay
- Description (Brief)
- This engraved printing plate was prepared to print an image of "Scolopax meridionalis, Zapornia umbrina" (now Galinago shicklandii - Cordilleran snipe and Porzana porzana - Spotted Crake) for the publication "United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842," Volume 8, Mammalogy and Ornithology, plate 35, in the edition Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1858. The engraving was produced by W. H. Dougal after W. E. Hitchcock.
- Description
- William H. Dougal (1822–1895) of New York and Washington, D.C. (after 1844) engraved this copper printing plate after drawings by William E. Hitchcock. The image depicts the Scolopax meridionalis (now Galinago shicklandii, or Cordilleran snipe) and Zapornia umbrina (now Porzana porzana, or Spotted Crake). The engraved illustration was published as Plate 35 in Volume VIII, Mammalogy and Ornithology, by John Cassin, 1858.
- 1858
- ID Number
- 1999.0145.415
- catalog number
- 1999.0145.415
- accession number
- 1999.0145
- Object Name
- plate
- plate, printing
- Object Type
- Engraving
- Physical Description
- metal, copper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 43.2 cm x 28.6 cm; 17 in x 11 1/4 in
- Place Made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Associated Place
- Tierra del Fuego
- Oceanic
- 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_600654
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-1696-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
