COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
02298
Record number:
02298-2
JCB call number:
D819 R824v / 1-SIZE (copy 1)
Image title:
A Remarkable Iceberg. Lat. 70' 45 N. June 17, 1818.
Creator 1:
Sir John Ross
Creator 1 dates:
1777-1856
Creator 1 role:
Drawn by
Creator 2:
R. Havell & Son
Creator 2 role:
Engraved by
Place image published:
London
Image publisher:
John Murray. Albemarle Street
Image date:
1819
Image function:
plate; following p. 46
Technique:
aquatint, hand coloring
Image dimension height:
15.6 cm.
Image dimension width:
21.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
26.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
19.8 cm.
Materials medium:
ink, colors
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Iceberg. Includes two ships.
Source creator:
Ross, John, Sir, 1777-1856
Source Title:
A voyage of discovery, made under the orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty's ships Isabella and Alexander, for the purpose of exploring Baffin's Bay, and inquiring into the probability of a north-west passage.
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
John Murray, Albemarle-Street
Source date:
1819
notes:
Ross notes that just north of this point his ships and 45 others in the whaling business were stopped by icebergs too numerous to pass through.Sir John Ross joined the Royal Navy at the age of nine. In 1818 he was appointed commander of an expedition sponsored by the British Admiralty to find a northwest passage. The ships were the Isabella and the Alexander (commanded by William Parry), specially fitted out to withstand Arctic exploration and to make wintering over in the Arctic possible. His mission was to find a passage, note the tides, currents, ice conditions, effects of magnetism, and to collect specimens. Ross experienced mirages in the form of mountains that made him turn back quite early in the exploration. He made two more trips to the Arctic: one in 1829 during which he found the magnetic north pole and spent four years in the Arctic while losing only three men, and one in 1850 when he was 72 to try to find the party of Sir John Franklin.Image placed horizontally on page.
Time Period:
1801-1850
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1880.
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:
Icebergs
Subject headings:
Arctic regions
Subject headings:
Northwest Passage
A Remarkable Iceberg. Lat. 70' 45 N. June 17, 1818.
