COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
02243
Record number:
02243-20
JCB call number:
D828 F824n / 1-SIZE
Image title:
Boats in a Swell Amongst Ice.
Creator 1:
George Back
Creator 1 dates:
1796-1878
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:
John Murray
Image date:
1828
Image function:
plate 20; following p. 170
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
12.3 cm.
Image dimension width:
19.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
27 cm.
Page dimension width:
20.6 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Two boats are rowed by Europeans in an ocean swell and among huge, strangely shaped ice floes.
Source creator:
Franklin, John, Sir, 1786-1847
Source Title:
Narrative of a second expedition to the shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1825, 1826, and 1827, ...
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
John Murray, Albemarle-Street
Source date:
MDCCCXXVIII. [1828]
notes:
Franklin reached this spot in late August of 1826. It is near Mount Conybeare. The pieces of ice are described as being between 15 and 30 feet high.Franklin's first overland expedition went from the western shore of Hudson Bay to the Arctic Ocean between 1819 and 1822. This book describes his second overland expedition from the mouth of the Mackenzie River in northwest Canada to Point Beechey in present-day Alaska. A second part of the expedition travelled from the Mackenzie to the Coppermine River.Image placed horizontally on page.
Time Period:
1801-1850
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Arctic
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--British
Subject headings:
Sea ice
Boats in a Swell Amongst Ice.
