COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
02242
Record number:
02242-21
JCB call number:
D823 F824 / 1-SIZE
Image title:
Expedition Encamped at Point Turnagain. Augt. 21. 1821.
Creator 1:
George Back
Creator 1 dates:
1796-1878
Creator 1 role:
Drawn by
Creator 2:
Edward Francis Finden
Creator 2 dates:
1791-1857
Creator 2 role:
Engraved by
Place image published:
London
Image publisher:
John Murray
Image date:
1823
Image function:
plate; following p. 386
Technique:
steel engraving
Image dimension height:
14.1 cm.
Image dimension width:
20.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
27 cm.
Page dimension width:
23.2 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Encampment on a seashore. Includes men in military uniform, guns, tents, and campfires.
Source creator:
Franklin, John, Sir, 1786-1847
Source Title:
Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819, 20, 21, and 22. ...
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
John Murray, Albemarle-Street
Source date:
MDCCCXXIII. [1823]
notes:
Turnagain Point is on Kent Peninsula in present-day Nunavut, Canada. It was here that the officers decided that due to lack of supplies and the necessity of finding a winter shelter the expedition should turn back.Franklin's expedition sailed in Hudson's Bay Company ships to try to map the northern part of Canada and to discover a northwest passage by land. Midshipmen Hood and Back were attached to the expedition because of their scientific and artistic abilities. Hood was the primary surveyor and draughtsman; he died in September, 1821, shot by Michel Terohaute, a voyageur or guide. Finden, the engraver, took considerable liberties with the original drawings.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:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Northwest Passage
Subject headings:
Nunavut--Description and travel
Expedition Encamped at Point Turnagain. Augt. 21. 1821.
