Titian Ramsay Peale

Titian Ramsay Peale (age portrait)

Titian Ramsay Peale , often also Titian Peale , (born November 17, 1799 , according to other sources on November 2, 1799 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † March 13, 1885 ibid) was an American naturalist and artist. He is one of the pioneers of amateur photography in the United States.

Life

Peale was the son of Charles Willson Peale and Elisabeth de Peyster Peale. His father founded the Philadelphia Museum in 1786, which is considered the first public natural history museum in the United States. After a short-term job in a spinning machine factory in 1812 and attending the University of Pennsylvania, Titian Peale learned the preparation trade from Charles Waterton in the Philadelphia Museum in 1824 . In addition, he made drawings of the museum objects. In the winter of 1824/25, Peale collected bird hides in Florida on behalf of Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte . In 1825 he drew panels for the first volume and in 1833 for the fourth volume of the work American ornithology, or, The natural history of birds inhabiting the United States, not given by Wilson: with figures drawn, engraved, and colored, from nature by Bonaparte. In 1822 he married Eliza Cecilia La Forgue, with whom he had six children. In 1848 he married Lucinda Mac Mullen after the death of his first wife.

In the fall of 1817 he accompanied William Maclure , Thomas Say and George Ord to the Georgia coast and Florida. This collective expedition was carried out on behalf of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. From May 1819 to January 1821 Peale was a researcher and draftsman during Major Stephen Harriman Long's expedition to explore the area between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains . He collected numerous animal samples, made sketches and illustrated the work of Long's expedition members. Between 1824 and 1828 Thomas Say published three volumes of American Entomology , which were illustrated by Peale. In 1821 Peale was assistant director and in 1833 director of the Philadelphia Museum. In 1831 Peale accompanied an expedition from Marmaduke Burrow to the Río Magdalena in Colombia . In 1833 he began a manuscript entitled Lepidoptera Americana , which, however, remained unfinished and was only published in parts. Between 1838 and 1842 he was a member of the United States Exploring Expedition under Charles Wilkes . In 1849, Peale had to sell his collection, with the exception of the paintings, for financial reasons. From 1849 to 1872 he worked as an examiner in the United States Patent and Trademark Office in Washington, DC

Peale is considered to be one of the first amateur photographers in the United States. In the 1850s and 1860s in particular, he made frequent recordings of Washington, DC and the surrounding area. In 1871 he was one of the founders of the Philosophical Society of Washington alongside Joseph Henry .

gallery

Automeris io [1833]
Self-portrait [1845?]
Kilauea on the day [1842]
Kilauea at night [1842]
Prairie dog on site [approx. 1819-1821]

Dedication names and honors

In 1867 Otto Finsch and Gustav Hartlaub described the subspecies Todiramphus chloris pealei from the collar read of American Samoa . In 1873 Robert Ridgway named the North American peregrine falcon ( Falco peregrinus pealei ), the largest subspecies of the peregrine falcon , in honor of Peales. The Pacific island of Peale Island near Wake , Peale Inlet Bay in Ellsworthland in Antarctica and the Peale Passage at the southern end of Puget Sound are also named after him.

literature

Jessie Peale Poesch: Titian Ramsay Peale And His Journals of The Wilkes Expedition, 1799-1885. American Philosophical Society. 1961. p. 226. ISBN 978-1-258-05655-1 .
Charles Coleman Sellers: Mr. Peale's Museum, Charles Willson Peale and the First Popular Museum of Natural Science and Art. WW Norton & Company, 1980. p. 370. ISBN 978-0-393-05700-3 .
Keir Brooks Sterling, Richard P. Harmond, George A. Cevasco, Lorne Foster Hammond: Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists. Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, London 2006, pp. 613-615. ISBN 978-0-313-23047-9

Web links

Commons : Titian Ramsay Peale - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Keir Brooks Sterling, Richard P. Harmond, George A. Cevasco, Lorne Foster Hammond: Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists. Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, London 2006, pp. 613-615. ISBN 978-0-313-23047-9
↑ Charlotte M. Porter (1985). The Lifework of Titian Ramsay Peale, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 129 (3): 300-312. (ISSN 0003-049X)

personal data
SURNAME	Peale, Titian Ramsay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American naturalist and artist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 17, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH	Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH	March 13, 1885
Place of death	Philadelphia , Pennsylvania

[1] Keir Brooks Sterling, Richard P. Harmond, George A. Cevasco, Lorne Foster Hammond: Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists. Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, London 2006, pp. 613-615. ISBN 978-0-313-23047-9

[2] Charlotte M. Porter (1985). The Lifework of Titian Ramsay Peale, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 129 (3): 300-312. (ISSN 0003-049X)