Engraved wood block "Patagonians"
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1844
label: Date made
content: ca 1844
name: label: publisher
content: Wilkes, Charles
label: printer
content: Sherman, Conger
label: author
content: Wilkes, Charles
label: original artist
content: Agate, A. T.
label: graphic artist
content: Brightly, Joseph H.
label: graphic artist
content: Manning, J. H.
notes: label: Description
content: Joseph H. Brightly (about 1818–about 1858) of Philadelphia and New York City engraved this printing block after a drawing of <I>Patagonians</I> by Expedition Artist Alfred T. Agate. The wood engraving illustration was published on page 118 of Volume I of the U.S. Exploring Expedition <I>Narrative</I> by Charles Wilkes, 1844.
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
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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: 1999.0145.055
label: accession number
content: 1999.0145
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0145.055
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: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 4 in; 7.62 cm x 10.16 cm