No. 19: View of a petrified stump of a tree found lying split open

Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University - Richard H. Kern and Edward Meyer Kern Illustrations of the American Southwest

About

Subject

Trees, Fossil
Southwest, New

Description

A watercolor drawing on medium-weight paper by Richard H. Kern depicting a petrified tree stump that was found between their expedition's camp 7 and camp 8, after it has been split in half. The stump within this drawing is specified to have a height of four feet and a diameter of two and a half feet.

Creator

Kern, Richard H., 1821-1853

Date

1849-08-26

Type

Image

Original Format

Drawings

Digital Format

image/jpeg

Language

English

Source

ANSP-Coll-0146, Box 1, Folder 3

Identifier

ansp_146_26195_019

Notes

Cataloging made possible by The Getty Grant Program.

Relation

Richard H. Kern and Edward Meyer Kern Illustrations of the American Southwest

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Contact

archives@ansp.org

Contributing Institution

Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

Sponsorship

This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education.