William H. Dougal

1822-1895

American (New Haven, Connecticut; Washington, District of Columbia)

William Henry Dougal, born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1822, apprenticed at fiftheen to New York engravers Sherman and Smith. By 1844, he was living in Washington, D.C. and working on his own. His first important commission was to produce illustrations for the reports on the Wilkes Expedition, which made the important discovery that Antarctica is a continent and mapped many islands in the South Pacific. He engraved plates for the Narrative of the U.S. Exploring Expedition, published between 1844 and 1874.