Adjunta cave inscription (10 characters)
date: label: Date made
content: 1845
label: Date made
content: 1848
name: label: Associated Name
content: Wilkes, Charles
label: engraver
content: unknown
label: illustrator
content: unknown
label: printer
content: Sherman, C.
label: author
content: Pickering, Charles
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, Volume IX, The Races of Men: and their Geographical Distribution," 1848, Chapter 25, "Antiquities and Introduced Animals and Plants of the Hindoostan," page 353, image of heiroglyphics. The image was drawn and engraved by unknown artists. 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: 1999.0145.279
label: accession number
content: 1999.0145
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0145.279
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