De Fuca's Pillar
date: label: Date made
content: 1845-56
label: Date made
content: 1845
name: label: Associated Name
content: Wilkes, Charles
label: engraver
content: unknown
label: illustrator
content: unknown
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This engraved wood block was likely prepared to print an image in the publication "The Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842." The image was not published with any of the expedition volumes but is of the same style and subject as images in that publication. The block is not marked but resembles block engraving "De Fuca's Pillar," (Volume 4, page 496), so may have been replaced by that engraving. The block was proofed. The plate is not a holding of the Graphic Arts Collection.
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: 1999.0145.294
label: accession number
content: 1999.0145
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0145.294
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