1. Titian Ramsay Peale was an American artist, naturalist, and explorer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
16 Facts About Titian Peale
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Titian Peale was a scientific illustrator whose paintings and drawings of wildlife are known for their beauty and accuracy.
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Titian Peale was a member of the United States Exploring Expedition.
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The family moved to Germantown, Pennsylvania, outside of Philadelphia, where Titian Peale began collecting and drawing butterflies and other insects.
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Titian Peale was a member of the "first private, museum sponsored exploration in the United States", when he joined William Maclure, Thomas Say, and George Ord on an expedition to Florida and Georgia in 1817, sponsored by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
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Titian Peale has brought a fine zoological collection for the Philadelphia Museum, among which are 500 birds and 50 quadrupeds, which were not there.
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Titian Peale asserts the very singular fact that the R Magdalena has no shells and but few fishes.
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Around 1832 Titian Peale was one of the first naturalists to question the veracity of John James Audubon's claim of discovering a new species of eagle.
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From 1833 to 1836, Titian Peale managed the Philadelphia Museum, which had been founded by his father Charles Willson Titian Peale.
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In 1838, Titian Peale boarded the USS Peacock and served as chief naturalist for the United States Exploring Expedition led by Lt.
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Titian Peale was the second ornithologist known to collect a female golden-winged Warbler, and the first to illustrate it.
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Titian Peale shot his specimen in 1824 near Camden, New Jersey, and his drawing was engraved by Alexander Lawson and published in Plate 1 of Bonaparte's American Ornithology; or, the Natural History of Birds Inhabiting the United States, Not Given by Wilson, vol.
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Titian Peale developed an effective method for storing butterflies in sealed cases with glass fronts and backs, and parts of his collection of over 100 species still survive.
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Titian Peale was the curator for the Peale's Museum and was a notable scientific illustrator of Central Plains flora and fauna for several decades.
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Titian Peale was employed at the United States Patent Office until 1873.
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Titian Peale died on March 13,1885, in Philadelphia and was interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery, Section 8, Lot 74, in an unmarked grave.