COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
04921
Record number:
04921-5
JCB call number:
D831 B414n / 1-SIZE
Image title:
Crew of the Blossom's Barge Erecting a Post for Captn. Franklin near Refuge Inlet.
Creator 1:
William Smyth
Creator 1 dates:
1800-1877
Creator 1 role:
Drawn by
Creator 2:
Edward Francis Finden
Creator 2 dates:
1791-1857
Creator 2 role:
Engraved by
Place image published:
London
Image publisher:
Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley
Image date:
1830
Image function:
plate; Pt I, following p. 312
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
12.5 cm.
Image dimension width:
19.6 cm.
Page dimension height:
27 cm.
Page dimension width:
20.9 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Small group of European men raises and secures a pole on a shore a small distance from a native American [Inuit] village or settlement. A ship with some crew members rests among ice floes near shore. Includes Inuit (one holding a kayak), dwellings, and man looking through telescope.
Source creator:
Beechey, Frederick William, 1796-1856
Source Title:
Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to co-operate with the polar expeditions ... in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28.
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street.
Source date:
MDCCCXXXI. [1831]
notes:
The crew of the Blossom, realizing that they could wait no longer to meet up with Captain Franklin, left some supplies and instructions for him. It was late in the season and the sea was beginning to freeze, making further exploration too risky. They had come within 146 miles of Franklin's westernmost exploration.Beechey had served under John Franklin and David Buchan in 1818 on their Arctic exploration, and in 1819 he went with Parry on the Hecla to the Arctic. In 1825, aboard the Blossom, Beechey was to explore the possibility of a northeast passage from the west coast of the Americas in concert with Franklin and Parry operating from the east.William Smyth (1800-1877) was a naval officer (later Admiral) and talented artist who served aboard the Blossom.Image placed horizontally on page.
Time Period:
1801-1850
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1870.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Arctic
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Northwest Passage
Subject headings:
Arctic regions
Crew of the Blossom's Barge Erecting a Post for Captn. Franklin near Refuge Inlet.
