Object Details
- original artist
- Cassin, John
- publisher
- U.S. War Department
- author
- Beckwith, Edward Griffin
- publisher
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Topographic Command
- printer
- Nicholson, A. O. P.
- Description (Brief)
- This colored lithograph of "Buteo calurus [Cassin]," now "Buteo jamaicensis calurus" or Red-tailed Hawk, is believed to have been drawn on stone by William E. Hitchcock (ca 1822-ca 1906), lithographed by Bowen & Company of Philadelphia (ca 1840-1870), and likely hand colored by Bowen firm colorists or Lavinia Bowen (ca 1820- ca 1872).
- The image was published as Plate XIV in the "Zoological Portion of the Reports by Lieutenant E. G. Beckwith, Third Artillery, upon the Route near the 38th and 39th Parallels, surveyed by Captain J. W. Gunnison, Corps of Topographical Engineers, and upon the route near the Forty–First Parallel, surveyed by Lieut. E. G. Beckwith, Third Artillery.” The report was published in volume X of the “Reports and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean ... 1853, 1856, Volume X," printed in 1859 by Beverley Tucker of Washington, D.C.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date on report
- 1854
- date printed in book
- 1859
- ID Number
- GA.16332.017
- accession number
- 1930.110179
- catalog number
- 16332.017
- Object Name
- Object Type
- Hand-Color Lithograph
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 18 cm x 23.6 cm; 7 1/16 in x 9 5/16 in
- Place Made
- United States: District of Columbia
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- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1318535
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-0de7-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
