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The butterflies of North America : Titian Peale's lost manuscript / [by Titian Ramsay Peale II] ; foreword by Ellen V. Futter ; preface and scientific captions by David A. Grimaldi ; introduction by Kenneth Haltman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History, in Association with Abrams, 2015Description: 255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781419717840 (hbk.)
  • 1419717847 (hbk.)
Other title:
  • Titian Peale's lost manuscript
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Contents:
Foreword. The butterflies of Titian Ramsay Peale / by Ellen V. Futter -- Preface. Titian Ramsay Peale : America's first lepidopterist / by David A. Grimaldi -- Introduction. A life of artful science : the metamorphoses of Titian Ramsay Peale / by Kenneth Haltman -- The plates. The butterflies of North America, diurnal Lepidoptera : whence the come, where they go, and what they do / by Titian Ramsay Peale -- The prospectus. Lepidoptera Americana : or, Original figures of the moths and butterflies of North America : in their various stages of existence, and the plants on which they feed, drawn on stone, and colored from nature : with their characters, synonyms, and remarks on their habits and manners / by Titian Ramsay Peale -- The caterpillar album. Lepidoptera : larva, food-plant, pupa &c. / by Titian Ramsay Peale -- Titian Ramsay Peale's letter "to the publishers".
Summary: "The American artist and naturalist Titian Ramsay Peale II (1799- 1885) had a passion for butterflies, and throughout his long life he wrote and illustrated an ambitious and comprehensive manuscript. The book, along with a companion volume on caterpillars, was never published, and it resides today in the Rare Book Collection of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Now Peale's color plates, ... prepared for the printer by the artist more than 100 years ago, [is] published for the first time"--Page 4 of cover.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The American artist and naturalist Titian Ramsay Peale II (1799-1885) had a passion for butterflies, and throughout his long life he wrote and illustrated an ambitious and comprehensive manuscript. The book, along with a companion volume on caterpillars, was never published, and it resides today in the Rare Book Collection of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Now Peale's color plates, lovingly prepared for the printer by the artist more than 100 years ago, will be published for the first time in this beautiful volume. At last, Peale's life work, equivalent in scope and beauty to Audubon's Birds of North America, will be available to a wide audience. The book includes a foreword by Ellen V. Futter and text by Kenneth Haltman and David A. Grimaldi that describes the art and science Peale brought to his extraordinary work.

Also see: The Butterflies of Titian Ramsay Peale Notecards (978-1-4197-1806-9), The Butterflies of Titian Ramsay Peale Journal (978-1-4197-1805-2), and The Butterflies of Titian Ramsay Peale 2016 Wall Calendar (978-1-4197-1754-3)

"The American artist and naturalist Titian Ramsay Peale II (1799-1885) had a passion for butterflies, and throughout his long life he wrote and illustrated an ambitious manuscript on the butterflies of North America. This work, along with a companion volume on caterpillars, was never published, and resides today in the Rare Book Collection of the American Museum of Natural History's Library in New York. Now, Peale's color plates, lovingly prepared for the printer by the artist over one hundred years ago, are published for the first time in this beautiful volume. More than two hundred hand-painted works of art illustrate the life cycle of hundreds of butterfly and moth species, in a comprehensive and dazzling collection, equivalent in scope and beauty to Audubon's Birds of America"--Page [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-249) and index.

Foreword. The butterflies of Titian Ramsay Peale / by Ellen V. Futter -- Preface. Titian Ramsay Peale : America's first lepidopterist / by David A. Grimaldi -- Introduction. A life of artful science : the metamorphoses of Titian Ramsay Peale / by Kenneth Haltman -- The plates. The butterflies of North America, diurnal Lepidoptera : whence the come, where they go, and what they do / by Titian Ramsay Peale -- The prospectus. Lepidoptera Americana : or, Original figures of the moths and butterflies of North America : in their various stages of existence, and the plants on which they feed, drawn on stone, and colored from nature : with their characters, synonyms, and remarks on their habits and manners / by Titian Ramsay Peale -- The caterpillar album. Lepidoptera : larva, food-plant, pupa &c. / by Titian Ramsay Peale -- Titian Ramsay Peale's letter "to the publishers".

"The American artist and naturalist Titian Ramsay Peale II (1799- 1885) had a passion for butterflies, and throughout his long life he wrote and illustrated an ambitious and comprehensive manuscript. The book, along with a companion volume on caterpillars, was never published, and it resides today in the Rare Book Collection of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Now Peale's color plates, ... prepared for the printer by the artist more than 100 years ago, [is] published for the first time"--Page 4 of cover.

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