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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
02242
Record number:
02242-17
JCB call number:
D823 F824 / 1-SIZE
Image title:
Expedition Passing through Point Lata [Lake?] on the Ice. June 25. 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. 322
Technique:
steel engraving
Image dimension height:
14.5 cm.
Image dimension width:
20.9 cm.
Page dimension height:
27 cm.
Page dimension width:
23.2 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
British men in uniform, French-Canadian guides or voyageurs, and native Americans rest and begin crossing a frozen lake. Includes boats or canoes, dogs pulling canoes, guns, men ice fishing, and dead fish and game.
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:
Point Lake, in present-day Northwest Territories, Canada, is 215 miles north of Yellowknife and is part of the Coppermine River system. The lake is 71 miles long and two miles wide. The expedition had left Fort Enterprise and was moving north.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
References:
http://pubs.aina.uc… (Sept. 2007)
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Northwest Passage
Subject headings:
Northwest Territories--Description and travel

Expedition Passing through Point Lata [Lake?] on the Ice. June 25. 1821.

     
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Expedition Passing through Point Lata [Lake?] on the Ice. June 25. 1821.