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Purposeful Traveler: Titian Ramsay Peale (Exhibition)
birth: 1996 May 31
death: 1996, approximately
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 A selection of color illustrations from his unpublished “The Butterflies of North America, Diurnal Lepidoptera, Whence They Come; Where They Go; and What They Do” as well as a prospectus for his Lepidoptera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.