Engraved printing plate "Ptilouopus Perousei"
National Museum of American History

Engraved printing plate "Ptilouopus Perousei"

Wilkes, Charles · 1858

metal, copper (overall material)
National Museum of American History
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of American History

This engraved printing plate was prepared to print an image of "Ptilonopus Perousei" (now Many-colored Fruit Dove, Ptilinopus perousii Peale (S. polynesia)) for the publication "United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842," Volume 8, Mammalogy and Ornithology, plate 33, in the edition Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1858. The engraving was produced by Robert Hinshelwood after T. R. Peale.

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