COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
03420
Record number:
03420-4
JCB call number:
D818 O66g / 1-SIZE
Image title:
Disco at Fortune Bay with Cirrus Radiation.
Creator 1:
S. Koenig
Creator 1 role:
del.
Creator 2:
Frederick Christian Lewis I
Creator 2 dates:
1779-1856
Creator 2 role:
sculpt.
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
Baldwin, Cradock & Joy
Image date:
1818
Image function:
plate 3; following p. 44
Technique:
aquatint
Image dimension height:
15.7cm.
Image dimension width:
21.9 cm.
Page dimension height:
27.7cm.
Page dimension width:
20.7 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Two boats paddled by native Americans [Inuit] land at some shore ice. Includes Inuit with spears, dogs or wolves, rocky coast, and a curved band of light above the horizon.
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:
The cirrus clouds are made of ice spheres that reflect solar radiation. This meterorological observation was made on Disko Island off the western coast of Greenland.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.Title page states that the plates are taken from drawings done by the author on the spot.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:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Cirrus clouds--Greenland
Subject headings:
Geology--Greenland
Subject headings:
Inuit
Disco at Fortune Bay with Cirrus Radiation.
