COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
02242
Record number:
02242-18
JCB call number:
D823 F824 / 1-SIZE
Image title:
Bloody Fall. July 17. 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. 350
Technique:
steel engraving
Image dimension height:
14.6 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:
An encampment on hills above a river. Includes tents, British flags, human skulls and bones, men in a boat, and dogs [?].
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:
Bloody or Kugluk Falls is on the Coppermine River, and its name commemorates the massacre of Inuit men, women, and children by Samuel Hearne's Chipewyan guides in 1771. The location is near the border between present-day Nunavut and Northwest Territories, Canada.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:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Northwest Passage
Subject headings:
Northwest Territories--Description and travel
Subject headings:
Nunavut--Description and travel
Bloody Fall. July 17. 1821.
