COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
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JCB Archive of Early American Images
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Accession number:
02298
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02298
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Record number:
02298-3
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02298-3
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JCB call number:
D819 R824v / 1-SIZE (copy 1)
jcb_call_no
D819 R824v / 1-SIZE (copy 1)
JCB call number
false
Image title:
Island of Disco and Icebergs.
image_title
Island of Disco and Icebergs.
Image title
false
Creator 1:
A. M. Skene
creator1
A. M. Skene
Creator 1
false
Creator 1 role:
Drawn by
creator1_role
Drawn by
Creator 1 role
false
Creator 2:
R. Havell & Son
creator2
R. Havell & Son
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false
Creator 2 role:
Engraved by
creator2_role
Engraved by
Creator 2 role
false
Place image published:
[London]
place_image_published
[London]
Place image published
false
Image publisher:
[John Murray]
image_publisher
[John Murray]
Image publisher
false
Image date:
[1819]
image_date
[1819]
Image date
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Image function:
fold-out plate; following p. 50
image_function
fold-out plate; following p. 50
Image function
false
Technique:
aquatint, hand coloring
technique
aquatint, hand coloring
Technique
false
Image dimension height:
20.8 cm.
image_dimensions_height
20.8 cm.
Image dimension height
false
Image dimension width:
38 cm.
image_dimensions_width
38 cm.
Image dimension width
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Page dimension height:
25.1 cm.
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25.1 cm.
Page dimension height
false
Page dimension width:
38.6 cm.
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38.6 cm.
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Materials medium:
ink, colors
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ink, colors
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Materials support:
paper
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paper
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Description:
View of Disco [Disko] Island off Greenland with icebergs around its shore.
description
View of Disco [Disko] Island off Greenland with icebergs around its shore.
Description
false
Source creator:
Ross, John, Sir, 1777-1856
source_creator
Ross, John, Sir, 1777-1856
Source creator
false
Source Title:
A voyage of discovery, made under the orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty's ships Isabella and Alexander, for the purpose of exploring Baffin's Bay, and inquiring into the probability of a north-west passage.
source_title
A voyage of discovery, made under the orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty's ships Isabella and Alexander, for the purpose of exploring Baffin's Bay, and inquiring into the probability of a north-west passage.
Source Title
false
Source place of publication:
London
source_place_of_publication
London
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false
Source publisher:
John Murray, Albemarle-Street
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John Murray, Albemarle-Street
Source publisher
false
Source date:
1819
source_date
1819
Source date
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notes:
Skene was the Admiralty Midshipman.Sir John Ross joined the Royal Navy at the age of nine. In 1818 he was appointed commander of an expedition sponsored by the British Admiralty to find a northwest passage. The ships were the Isabella and the Alexander (commanded by William Parry), specially fitted out to withstand Arctic exploration and to make wintering over in the Arctic possible. His mission was to find a passage, note the tides, currents, ice conditions, effects of magnetism, and to collect specimens. Ross experienced mirages in the form of mountains that made him turn back quite early in the exploration. He made two more trips to the Arctic: one in 1829 during which he found the magnetic north pole and spent four years in the Arctic while losing only three men, and one in 1850 when he was 72 to try to find the party of Sir John Franklin.
notes
Skene was the Admiralty Midshipman.Sir John Ross joined the Royal Navy at the age of nine. In 1818 he was appointed commander of an expedition sponsored by the British Admiralty to find a northwest passage. The ships were the Isabella and the Alexander (commanded by William Parry), specially fitted out to withstand Arctic exploration and to make wintering over in the Arctic possible. His mission was to find a passage, note the tides, currents, ice conditions, effects of magnetism, and to collect specimens. Ross experienced mirages in the form of mountains that made him turn back quite early in the exploration. He made two more trips to the Arctic: one in 1829 during which he found the magnetic north pole and spent four years in the Arctic while losing only three men, and one in 1850 when he was 72 to try to find the party of Sir John Franklin.
notes
false
Time Period:
1801-1850
time_period
1801-1850
Time Period
false
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1880.
provenance_or_donor
Acquired before 1880.
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
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false
geographic area:
Arctic
geographic_areas
Arctic
geographic area
false
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
subject_groups
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject Area
false
Subject headings:
Disko Island (Greenland)--Description and travel
subject_heads
Disko Island (Greenland)--Description and travel
Subject headings
false
Subject headings:
Arctic regions
subject_heads
Arctic regions
Subject headings
false