Engraved printing plate "Procellaria nivea"
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- plate
- Object Type
- Engraving
- Date made
- 1858
- publisher
- Wilkes, Charles
- original artist
- Peale, Titian Ramsay
- graphic artist
- Rawdon, Wright, Hatch and Edson
- printer
- Sherman, Conger
- author
- Cassin, John
- maker
- Peale, Titian Ramsay
- Physical Description
- 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
- ID Number
- 1999.0145.422
- accession number
- 1999.0145
- catalog number
- 1999.0145.422
- subject
- Natural Resources
- Art
- Measuring & Mapping
- Science & Scientific Instruments
- 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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