Engraved printing plate "Pleiodus strigirostris"
date: label: Date made
content: 1858
name: label: publisher
content: Wilkes, Charles
label: original artist
content: Peale, Titian Ramsay
label: graphic artist
content: Dougal, William H.
label: printer
content: Sherman, Conger
label: author
content: Cassin, John
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This engraved printing plate was prepared to print an image of "Pleiodus strigirostris" (now Didunculus strigirostris - Tooth-billed Pigeon or Samoan Pigeon) for the publication "United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842," Volume 8, Mammalogy and Ornithology, plate 34, in the edition Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1858. The engraving was produced by W. H. Dougal after T. R. Peale.
label: Description
content: William H. Dougal (1822–1895) of New York and Washington, D.C., (after 1844) engraved this copper printing plate after a drawing by Expedition Naturalist Titian Ramsey Peale. The image depicts the Pleiodus strigirostris (now Didunculus strigirostris, Tooth billed pigeon or Samoan Pigeon). The engraved illustration was published as Plate 34 in Volume VIII, <I>Mammalogy and Ornithology,</I> by John Cassin, 1858.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: Associated Place
content: Samoa
topic: label: related event
content: U.S. Exploring Expedition
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Natural Resources
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Art
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content: Wilkes Blocks
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content: Measuring & Mapping
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: The United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
label: Related Web Publication
content: http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/usexex/index.htm
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0145.414
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0145.414
label: accession number
content: 1999.0145
objectType: label: Object Name
content: plate
label: Object Name
content: plate, printing
label: Object Type
content: Engraving
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, copper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 43.4 cm x 28.7 cm; 17 1/16 in x 11 5/16 in