An Engineer Cantonment Bestiary: The Art of Titian Ramsay Peale

Includes an overview of the work of American nature artist Titian Ramsay Peale as part of the Stephen H. Long Expedition, 1819-1820, at Engineer Cantonment in eastern Nebraska, USA. Includes textual descriptions and/or reproductions of watercolors and lined drawings by Peale of banded killifish (Fun...

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Main Authors: Genoways, Hugh H., Labedz, Thomas E.
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2018
Subjects:
Engineer Cantonment
History of science
Biodiversity
Nebraska
Great Plains
Nature art
Titian Ramsay Peale
American Art and Architecture
Archaeological Anthropology
Biological and Physical Anthropology
Entomology
Technology
and Medicine
Science and Mathematics Education
Zoology
Ramsay
American River
Canis lupus
gray wolf
Bison bison bison
Lontra
Lynx
Online Access:https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/museummammalogy/305
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/museummammalogy/article/1305/viewcontent/Genoways_2018_Engineer_Cantonment_chapter_11_11_2.pdf
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Summary:Includes an overview of the work of American nature artist Titian Ramsay Peale as part of the Stephen H. Long Expedition, 1819-1820, at Engineer Cantonment in eastern Nebraska, USA. Includes textual descriptions and/or reproductions of watercolors and lined drawings by Peale of banded killifish (Fundulus diaphanous), American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrothynchos), Wood Duck (Aix sponsa), Rough-legged Hawk (Buteo lagopus/Falco lagopus), Sandhill Crane (Grus canadensis tabida), Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos), Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea), American Tree Sparrow (Spizella arborea), Yellow-headed Blackbird (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus), Black-billed Magpies (Pica hudsonia), northern short-tailed shrew (Blarina brevicauda), North American least shrew (Cryptotis parva), eastern red bat (Lasiuris borealis), bobcat (Lynx rufus), red fox (Vulpes vulpes), coyote (Canis latrans), cottontail rabbit (Sylvilagus sp.), jackrabbit (Lepus sp.), white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginicanus), mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana), Thomas Say's dusky wolf (Canis nubilis/Canis lupus nubilis), gray wolf (Canis lupus), American bison (Bison bison), long-tailed weasel (Mustela frenata), North American river otter (Lontra canadensis), American badger (Taxidea taxus), eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus), muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus), mink (Neovison vison), and meadow jumping mouse (Zapus hudsonius).

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