Lithograph of bird species "Buteo elegans"
Lithograph of bird species "Buteo elegans"
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- Description
- This hand–colored lithograph of “Buteo elegans [Cassin],” now "Buteo lineatus elegans" or Red–shouldered hawk, was drawn by an unknown artist. It was printed as Plate II in the zoological report of volume X of Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, “Report of Explorations in California for Railroad Routes to Connect with the Routes near the 35th and 32nd Parallels of North Latitude. By Lieutenant R. S. Williamson, Corps of Topographical Engineers.” Though the zoological report was ready in 1853, volume X was not printed until 1859 by A.O.P. Nicholson in Washington, D.C.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Object Type
- Hand-Color Lithograph
- Hand-Color Lithograph
- date of book publication
- 1859
- publisher
- U.S. War Department
- printer
- Nicholson, A. O. P.
- publisher
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Topographic Command
- Williamson, Robert Stockton
- Heerman, Dr. A. L.
- Place Made
- United States: District of Columbia
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 18.6 cm x 24.1 cm; 7 5/16 in x 9 1/2 in
- ID Number
- GA.16332.067
- catalog number
- 16332.067
- accession number
- 1930.110179
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- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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- Natural Resources
- Science & Mathematics
- Survey Prints
- Transcontinental Railroad
- Transportation
- Art
- Measuring & Mapping
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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