Purposeful Traveler: Titian Ramsay Peale (Exhibition)
Dates
- Existence: 1996 May 31 - 1996, approximately
Summary
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 A selection of color illustrations from his unpublished “The Butterflies of North America, Diurnal Lepidoptera, Whence They Come; Where They Go; and What They Do” as well as a prospectus for his Lepidoptera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.
REFERENCES
(1) “A Nineteenth-Century Naturalist Revisited.” Rotunda (June 1996)
(2) “A Forgotten Naturalist.” Natural History (May 1996)
Places
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New York (N.Y.)
- Note: AMNH, Floor 4, Library Gallery
