COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
mediaCollectionId
JCB~1~1
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Collection
true
Accession number:
02295
accession_no
02295
Accession number
false
Record number:
02295-9
record_number
02295-9
Record number
false
JCB call number:
D821 P265j1 / 1-SIZE
jcb_call_no
D821 P265j1 / 1-SIZE
JCB call number
false
Image title:
[Views of Prince Leopold's Islands, Cape York, and Port Bowen]
image_title
[Views of Prince Leopold's Islands, Cape York, and Port Bowen]
Image title
false
Creator 1:
F. W. Beechy
creator1
F. W. Beechy
Creator 1
false
Creator 1 role:
del.
creator1_role
del.
Creator 1 role
false
Creator 2 dates:
I. Clark
creator2_dates
I. Clark
Creator 2 dates
false
Creator 3:
sculp.
creator3
sculp.
Creator 3
false
Place image published:
London
place_image_published
London
Place image published
false
Image publisher:
I. Murray [John Murray]
image_publisher
I. Murray [John Murray]
Image publisher
false
Image date:
1821
image_date
1821
Image date
false
Image function:
plate; vol. 1, following p. 36
image_function
plate; vol. 1, following p. 36
Image function
false
Technique:
steel engraving
technique
steel engraving
Technique
false
Image dimension height:
23.6 cm. (all four)
image_dimensions_height
23.6 cm. (all four)
Image dimension height
false
Image dimension width:
19.3 cm.
image_dimensions_width
19.3 cm.
Image dimension width
false
Page dimension height:
27.2 cm.
page_dimensions_height
27.2 cm.
Page dimension height
false
Page dimension width:
20.5 cm.
page_dimensions_width
20.5 cm.
Page dimension width
false
Materials medium:
ink
materials_medium
ink
Materials medium
false
Materials support:
paper
materials_support
paper
Materials support
false
Languages:
English
languages
English
Languages
false
Description:
Four views of the Arctic coast including the southernmost and northernmost of the Prince Leopold Islands, Cape York, and Port Bowen in Prince Regent's Inlet. Includes ships, boats capsizing, and sailors chopping ice and taking navigational observations.
description
Four views of the Arctic coast including the southernmost and northernmost of the Prince Leopold Islands, Cape York, and Port Bowen in Prince Regent's Inlet. Includes ships, boats capsizing, and sailors chopping ice and taking navigational observations.
Description
false
Source creator:
Parry, William Edward, Sir, 1790-1855
source_creator
Parry, William Edward, Sir, 1790-1855
Source creator
false
Source Title:
Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years 1819-20, in his Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper, under the orders of William Edward Parry, ...
source_title
Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years 1819-20, in his Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper, under the orders of William Edward Parry, ...
Source Title
false
Source place of publication:
London
source_place_of_publication
London
Source place of publication
false
Source publisher:
John Murray, Publisher to the Admiralty, and Board of Longitude.
source_publisher
John Murray, Publisher to the Admiralty, and Board of Longitude.
Source publisher
false
Source date:
MDCCCXXI. [1821]
source_date
MDCCCXXI. [1821]
Source date
false
notes:
Prince Regent's Inlet is in present-day Nunavut in northern Canada. Text notes that the islands were named by Parry for Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg. While the Griper's topmasts were being shifted, men from the Hecla brought ice on board for water. In the process, their boat was capsized by a fall of ice. Shortly thereafter, it was noted that the magnetic compass on board the ship was responding to the iron on the ship rather than to the magnetic pole. Thenceforth, observations had to be made from land by Lieutenants Beechy and Hoppner who also collected specimens of natural history.William Parry's first independent expedition to find a northwest passage left in 1819 to try to meet John Franklin coming over land. His ships were the first British ones to enter the Arctic Archipelago, and he was the first to reach 110o W longitude. He stayed on Melville Island (named for Viscount Melville) until August 1, 1820, sailed a little farther south and west, then returned to England. He proved that it was possible to winter over in the Arctic and showed that one would have to navigate through an archipelago to find a north-west passage. The second expedition left in April of 1821; two winters were passed in the Arctic, much knowledge of the Inuit was gained, but ice blocked any discovery of a passage.Printmaker is probably John Heaviside Clark, ca. 1770-1836. Midshipmen Beechy and Hoppner were responsible for the original drawings.
notes
Prince Regent's Inlet is in present-day Nunavut in northern Canada. Text notes that the islands were named by Parry for Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg. While the Griper's topmasts were being shifted, men from the Hecla brought ice on board for water. In the process, their boat was capsized by a fall of ice. Shortly thereafter, it was noted that the magnetic compass on board the ship was responding to the iron on the ship rather than to the magnetic pole. Thenceforth, observations had to be made from land by Lieutenants Beechy and Hoppner who also collected specimens of natural history.William Parry's first independent expedition to find a northwest passage left in 1819 to try to meet John Franklin coming over land. His ships were the first British ones to enter the Arctic Archipelago, and he was the first to reach 110o W longitude. He stayed on Melville Island (named for Viscount Melville) until August 1, 1820, sailed a little farther south and west, then returned to England. He proved that it was possible to winter over in the Arctic and showed that one would have to navigate through an archipelago to find a north-west passage. The second expedition left in April of 1821; two winters were passed in the Arctic, much knowledge of the Inuit was gained, but ice blocked any discovery of a passage.Printmaker is probably John Heaviside Clark, ca. 1770-1836. Midshipmen Beechy and Hoppner were responsible for the original drawings.
notes
false
Time Period:
1801-1850
time_period
1801-1850
Time Period
false
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1874.
provenance_or_donor
Acquired before 1874.
Provenance/Donor
false
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
owner_and_copyright
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Owner and copyright
false
geographic area:
Arctic
geographic_areas
Arctic
geographic area
false
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
subject_groups
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area
false
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
subject_groups
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject Area
false
Subject headings:
Canada, northern
subject_heads
Canada, northern
Subject headings
false
Subject headings:
Arctic regions
subject_heads
Arctic regions
Subject headings
false
Subject headings:
Northwest Passage
subject_heads
Northwest Passage
Subject headings
false