Object Details
- graphic artist
- Sinclair, Thomas
- Dreser, William
- printer
- Nicholson, A. O. P.
- publisher
- United States Navy
- author
- Cassin, John
- Gilliss, James Melville
- Description
- Thomas Sinclair (c.1805–1881) of Philadelphia printed this lithograph of “Chrysomitris Marginalis [Bonaparte] male and female," now "Carduelis barbata" or Black-chinned siskin, from an original sketch by William Dreser (c.1820–after 1860) of Philadelphia (1847–1860) and New York (1860). The illustration was published in 1855 by A.O.P. Nicholson in Washington, D.C. as Plate XVII in the “Birds” section of volume II of The United States Naval Astronomical Survey to the Southern Hemisphere, written by John Cassin (1813–1869).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1855
- ID Number
- 2008.0175.03
- accession number
- 2008.0175
- catalog number
- 2008.0175.03
- Object Name
- Object Type
- Lithograph
- Other Terms
- print; Chromolithograph
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 25.6 cm x 32.8 cm; 10 1/16 in x 12 15/16 in
- Place Made
- United States: District of Columbia
- Associated Place
- South America
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- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Military
- Communications
- Natural Resources
- Science & Mathematics
- Survey Prints
- Art
- Measuring & Mapping
- National Museum of American History
- subject
- Birds
- Exploration and Discovery
- U.S. Congress
- U. S. Navy
- South America
- Record ID
- nmah_803333
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-dbf4-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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