Article ID: CBB000076446

“Ask the beasts, and they shall teach thee”: The human lessons of Charles Willson Peale's natural history displays (1998)

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Brigham, David R. (Author)


Huntington Library Quarterly
Volume: 59
Pages: 183-206
Publication date: 1998


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Authors & Contributors
Miller, Lillian B.
Brigham, David R.
Peale, Charles Willison
Sellers, Charles Coleman
Yochelson, Ellis Leon
Appel, Toby Anita
Journals
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
American Studies
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History
Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies
Publishers
Yale University Press
University of Pennsylvania
Johns Hopkins University Press
Kraus Microform
Norton
Rutgers University Press
Concepts
Museums
Science
Science and art
Natural history
Public understanding of science
Visual representation; visual communication
People
Peale, Charles Willison
Audubon, John James
Bartram, William
Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe
Bartram, John
Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie Fraçois Joseph
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Places
United States
Philadelphia, PA
Institutions
Peale's Museum, Philadelphia
American Philosophical Society
Smithsonian Institution
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