Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Plan of a Deserted Hamlet, Discovered on Jameson's Land
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Accession number:
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02988
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Record number:
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02988-4
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JCB call number:
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D823 S423j
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Image title:
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Plan of a Deserted Hamlet, Discovered on Jameson's Land
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Creator 1:
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W.H. Lizars
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Creator 1 role:
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sculpt.
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Place image published:
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Edinburgh
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Image publisher:
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A. Constable & Co.
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Image date:
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1823
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Image function:
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Plate VI [6]; following p. 472
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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10.6 cm. (both images)
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Image dimension width:
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16.4 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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21.6 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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13 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Languages:
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English
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Description:
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Plan of the remains of an Inuit village on the east coast of Greenland. Includes compass rose and key to items in the image (graves, tumuli, and entrances to huts).
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Source creator:
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Scoresby, William, 1789-1857
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Source Title:
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Journal of a voyage to the northern whale-fishery; including researches and discoveries on the eastern coast of west Greenland, made in the summer of 1822 ...
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Source place of publication:
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Edinburgh
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Source publisher:
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Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson and Co. Cheapside, London.
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Source date:
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1823
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notes:
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Jameson Land is a peninsula on eastern Greenland, bounded on the southwest by Scoresby Sound, the world's largest fjord system. Text describes the dwellings, graves, implements, tools, or utensils created by the Inuit.William Scoresby, born in Yorkshire of a father who made his fortune in whaling, became an Arctic explorer and, later, a clergyman. His observations of natural phenomena contributed to the understanding of Arctic conditions. He also mapped and charted the east coast of Greenland on his voyage there in 1823.The engraver is probably William Home Lizars, Scottish painter and engraver (1788-1859).
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Time Period:
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1801-1850
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
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Arctic
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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Subject Area:
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Indigenous peoples
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Subject headings:
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Greenland--Description and travel
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Subject headings:
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Inuit--Dwellings
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