COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
02242
Record number:
02242-20
JCB call number:
D823 F824 / 1-SIZE
Image title:
Expedition Doubling Cape Barrow, July 25, 1821.
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:
1823
Image function:
plate; following p. 366
Technique:
etching, aquatint, hand coloring
Image dimension height:
13.5 cm.
Image dimension width:
19.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
27 cm.
Page dimension width:
23.2 cm.
Materials medium:
ink, colors
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Two boats or canoes being rowed near cliffs in a sea filled with ice floes.
Source creator:
Franklin, John, Sir, 1786-1847
Source Title:
Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819, 20, 21, and 22. ...
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
John Murray, Albemarle-Street
Source date:
MDCCCXXIII. [1823]
notes:
Cape Barrow separates Coronation Gulf from Bathurst Inlet. The expedition was exploring to the east, having entered the Arctic Ocean. The moment shown depicts two birchbark canoes in danger of being crushed by ice thrown about by a heavy sea.Franklin's expedition sailed in Hudson's Bay Company ships to try to map the northern part of Canada and to discover a northwest passage by land. Midshipmen Hood and Back were attached to the expedition because of their scientific and artistic abilities. Hood was the primary surveyor and draughtsman; he died in September, 1821, shot by Michel Terohaute, a voyageur or guide. Finden, the engraver, took considerable liberties with the original drawings.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:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Northwest Passage
Expedition Doubling Cape Barrow, July 25, 1821.
