COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number:
03420
Record number:
03420-1
JCB call number:
D818 O66g / 1-SIZE
Image title:
Sketch of the North Pole. 1817.
Creator 1:
J.C. Russell
Creator 1 role:
sculp.
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
Baldwin, Cradock & Joy
Image date:
1818
Image function:
frontispiece
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
26.4 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
20.2 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
27.8 cm.
Page dimension width:
20.4 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
Map of the northern hemisphere from the north pole to the Tropic of Cancer. Cartographic elements include lines of latitude and longitude, names of continents, countries, and bodies of water.
Source creator:
O'Reilly, Bernard
Source Title:
Greenland, the adjacent seas, and the North-west Passage to the Pacific Ocean, illustrated in a voyage to Davis's Strait, during the summer of 1817. ...
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 47, Paternoster-Row.
Source date:
1818
notes:
This voyage was made by the whaling ship Thomas with O'Reilly serving as ship's surgeon. O'Reilly claims to have discovered the Linnaean Island Chain and is confident of the discovery of a northwest passage. Although O'Reilly made many of the observations in the book, it is believed that large parts of the text were plagiarised from the lectures of Professor von Giesecke.
Time Period:
1801-1850
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Arctic
geographic area:
North America
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Arctic regions--Maps
Subject headings:
Northwest Passage--Maps
Subject headings:
Northern Hemisphere--Maps
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