Engraved printing plate "Ptilouopus Perousei"
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Plate
- Object Type
- Engraving
- Date made
- 1858
- publisher
- Wilkes, Charles
- original artist
- Peale, Titian Ramsay
- graphic artist
- Hinshelwood, Robert
- printer
- Sherman, Conger
- author
- Cassin, John
- Physical Description
- 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
- ID Number
- 1999.0145.413
- catalog number
- 1999.0145.413
- accession number
- 1999.0145
- subject
- Natural Resources
- Art
- Measuring & Mapping
- Science & Mathematics
- Wilkes
- event
- U.S. Exploring Expedition
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Graphic Arts
- Wilkes
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
- Publication title
- The United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
- Publication URL
- http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/usexex/index.htm
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