Engraved printing plate "Procellaria nivea"
date: label: Date made
content: 1858
name: label: publisher
content: Wilkes, Charles
label: original artist
content: Peale, Titian Ramsay
label: graphic artist
content: Rawdon, Wright, Hatch and Edson
label: printer
content: Sherman, Conger
label: author
content: Cassin, John
label: maker
content: Peale, Titian Ramsay
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This engraved printing plate was prepared to print an image of "Procellaria nivea" (now Pagodroma nivea - Snow Petrel) for the publication "United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842," Volume 8, Mammalogy and Ornithology, plate 42, in the edition Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1858. The engraving was produced by Rawdon, Wright, Hatch and Edson after T. R. Peale.
label: Description
content: The firm of Rawdon, Wright, Hatch and Edson (1830s–1850s) of New York City prepared this copper printing plate after a drawing by Expedition Naturalist Titian Ramsey Peale. It depicts the Procellaria nivea (now Pagodroma nivea or Snow Petrel). The engraved illustration was published as Plate 42 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: Antarctica
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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: 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: 1999.0145.422
label: accession number
content: 1999.0145
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0145.422
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: 43.7 cm x 28.8 cm; 17 3/16 in x 11 5/16 in