Charles Alexandre Lesueur printing plates. 1817-1825.

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Charles Alexandre Lesueur printing plates. 1817-1825.

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This collection consists of 24 printing plates depicting mostly fish life from Lesueur's travels through the United States and West Indies with William Maclure, and Napoleon's Australian expedition. Illustrations also include fossil shells and plant life, as well as one instance of human anatomy (jugular vein), a lizard (Cyclura teres), and a rodent (Neotoma floridana). The plates illustrate scientific papers written by Lesueur, Thomas Say, Thomas Nuttall, and others from the first series of the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1817-1825. Most illustrate specimens for the first time. Only the zinc plate was never published in the Journal. Lesueur drew and engraved the majority of the plates, but also included are plates drawn by Lesueur but engraved others: 4 by Francis Kearny, 1785-1837, 1 by Alexander Lawson, 1 by Butaud, and 1 by Kness, Young & Co. Also includes one plate engraved by Lesueur but drawn by William E. Horner, 1793-1853, and one drawn by Lesueur and Alexander Rider, together.

23 printing plates : copper ; 17 x 13 cm. -- 22 x 27 cm.1 printing plate : zinc ; 20 x 29 cm.

Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

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Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

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Butaud.

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Kness, Young & Co.

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Horner, William E. (William Edmonds), 1793-1853

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Philadelphia anatomist. From the description of ALS : Philadelphia, to an unidentified correspondent, 1825 June 16. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122626182 William Edmonds Horner, anatomist, was born on 3 June 1793 in Warrenton, Va., to William and Mary (Edmonds) Horner. On 26 Oct. 1820 he married Elizabeth Welsh of Philadelphia; they had 10 children. He died in Philadelphia on 13 March 1853. Horner studied medicine under John Spence and received his ...

Rider, Alexander (American painter, active 1810-1834)

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Kearny, Francis, 1785-1837

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Lesueur, Charles-Alexandre, 1778-1846

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Charles Alexandre Lesueur, artist and naturalist, was born on January 1, 1778, at Le Havre, France. He participated in Napoleon's expedition to Australia (1800-1804), and joined William Maclure in his geologic survey of Europe, the West Indies and the Eastern United States (1815-1817). Upon returning to Philadelphia, Lesueur and Maclure wrote out the results of their travels, publishing many scientific papers in the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, with Lesueur also pu...

Lawson, Alexander S.

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