Purposeful Traveler: Titian Ramsay Peale (Exhibition)

Exist Dates

1996 May 31 - 1996, approximately

Biographical or Historical Note

abstract

Exhibition. Opened May 31, 1996 and closed approximately 1996. Located on Floor 4 in the Library Gallery at the American Museum of Natural History. Purposeful Traveler: Titian Ramsay Peale featured a selection of Peale’s natural history illustrations, oil paintings, original photographs including salt prints, and memorabilia he collected from the South Seas.

Summary

Purposeful Traveler: Titian Ramsay Peale featured a selection of Peale’s natural history illustrations, oil paintings, watercolors, manuscripts, memorabilia he collected from the South Seas, and original photographic work, including cyanotypes, salt prints, and collotypes. A selection of color illustrations from his unpublished “The Butterflies of North America, Diurnal Lepidoptera, Whence They Come; Where They Go; and What They Do” as well as a prospectus for his Lepidoptera Americana were also on view. Four years earlier the Museum Library received gifts and long-term loans of Peale items by the Shehadi family, the descendants of Peale’s second wife, Lucy MacMullen (1;2).

This is a condensed summary of the exhibition. For additional information, see Sources and/or Related Resources.

Sources

(1) “A Nineteenth-Century Naturalist Revisited.” Rotunda (June 1996)

(2) “A Forgotten Naturalist.” Natural History (May 1996)

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Related Corporate, Personal, and Family Names

American Museum of Natural History. Department of Library Services.
Related department (1)

American Museum of Natural History. Library Gallery.
Location of exhibition 1996 May 31 – 1996, approximately (1; 2)

Peale, Titian Ramsay 1799-1885
Featured (1; 2)

Shehadi Family
Provided gifts and loans of exhibition material to Museum Library; descendants of Peale’s second wife, Lucy MacMullen (1; 2)

Titian Ramsay Peale: 1799-1885 (Exhibition)
1984 Museum Library exhibition on Titian Ramsay Peale

Related Resources

American Museum of Natural History photographic drawers
Repository: AMNH Special Collections [Black and white photos of items in exhibition]

American Museum of Natural History press releases, 1933-1990s
"Advance Exhibition Schedule and Programs.” July 1996

American Museum of Natural History vertical files
Repository: AMNH Special Collections [News articles, exhibition planning material, black and white photo prints, Rotunda and Natural History articles]

Natural history.
“A Forgotten Naturalist.” (May 1996)

subjectOf

Purposeful Traveler: Titian Ramsay Peale exhibition photographic slides, 1996. American Museum of Natural History Library Special Collections.

Rotunda.
“A Nineteenth-Century Naturalist Revisited.” (June 1996)

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