branching coralla
date: label: Date made
content: 1845
label: Date made
content: 1846
name: label: Associated Name
content: Wilkes, Charles
label: engraver
content: unknown
label: illustrator
content: unknown
label: printer
content: Sherman, C.
label: author
content: Dana, James Dwight
label: collaborator
content: Wilkes, Charles
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This engraved wood block was used to print an image in the publication "United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, Zoophytes," 1846, Volume 7, Chapter 4, "Actinoidea," page 78, figure 39, mode of branching in Astraeidae. The image was drawn by Joseph Drayton and was engraved by an unknown artist. It was originally printed by C. Sherman of Philadelphia.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: related event
content: U.S. Exploring Expedition
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
label: See more items in
content: Wilkes Blocks
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0145.270
label: accession number
content: 1999.0145
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0145.270
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Block
label: Object Name
content: block, printing
label: Object Type
content: relief
label: Object Type
content: block printing
label: Object Type
content: Wood Engraving
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 4 in; 7.62 cm x 10.16 cm