Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Situation of H. M. Ships Hecla & Griper, from the 17th. to the 23rd. of Augt. 1820
|
Accession number:
|
02295
|
|
Record number:
|
02295-16
|
|
JCB call number:
|
D821 P265j1 / 1-SIZE
|
|
Image title:
|
Situation of H. M. Ships Hecla & Griper, from the 17th. to the 23rd. of Augt. 1820
|
|
Creator 1:
|
William Westall
|
|
Creator 1 dates:
|
1781-1850
|
|
Creator 1 role:
|
Drawn & Engraved by
|
|
Creator 2:
|
Lieut. Hoppner
|
|
Creator 2 role:
|
from a Sketch made on the Spot by
|
|
Place image published:
|
London
|
|
Image publisher:
|
John Murray
|
|
Image date:
|
1821
|
|
Image function:
|
plate; vol. 1, following p. 254
|
|
Technique:
|
steel engraving
|
|
Image dimension height:
|
12.3 cm.
|
|
Image dimension width:
|
20.4 cm.
|
|
Page dimension height:
|
27.2 cm.
|
|
Page dimension width:
|
20.5 cm.
|
|
Materials medium:
|
ink
|
|
Materials support:
|
paper
|
|
Description:
|
Two ships among ice floes. Includes three men on shore.
|
|
Source creator:
|
Parry, William Edward, Sir, 1790-1855
|
|
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 place of publication:
|
London
|
|
Source publisher:
|
John Murray, Publisher to the Admiralty, and Board of Longitude.
|
|
Source date:
|
MDCCCXXI. [1821]
|
|
notes:
|
Parry's ships were trapped for several days by ice, and it was at this point that he made the calculations of stores of food and fuel that led him to recommend to his officers that they return eastward rather than risk spending another winter in the Arctic. Mid-September was the latest date at which navigation in the Arctic could be performed.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 northwest 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.Image placed horizontally on page.
|
|
Time Period:
|
1801-1850
|
|
Provenance/Donor:
|
Acquired before 1874.
|
|
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:
|
Canada, northern
|
|
Subject headings:
|
Arctic regions
|
|
Subject headings:
|
Northwest Passage
|