Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: An Esquimaux Sledge.
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Accession number:
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76-280
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Record number:
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76-280-2
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JCB call number:
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D822 W872e
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Image title:
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An Esquimaux Sledge.
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Place image published:
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[Dublin]
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Image publisher:
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[Richard Grace]
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Image date:
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[1822]
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Image function:
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plate; following p. [164]
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Technique:
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woodcut
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Image dimension height:
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6.7 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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10.7 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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13.7 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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8 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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Description:
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Two dogsleds travel through a landscape.
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Source Title:
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Wonderful escapes! Containing the narrative of the shipwreck of the Antelope packet. The loss of the Lady Hobart packet, on an island of ice. The shipwreck of the Hercules, on the coast of Africa. An extraordinary escape from the effects of a storm, in a journey over the frozen sea, in North America.
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Source place of publication:
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Dublin
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Source publisher:
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Printed by Richard Grace, 3, Mary-Street
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Source date:
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1822
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notes:
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This image illustrates part of an attempted journey taken in 1782 by a party of Englishmen, a woman, and a child with the Inuit by dogsled from Nain in the present-day province of Newfoundland and Labrador to a town called Okkak. They traveled over frozen sea, but a storm broke up the ice, they narrowly escaped death, and they were forced to return to Nain. Nain was founded in 1771 as a Moravian mission. Image placed horizontally on page.
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Time Period:
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1801-1850
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Provenance/Donor:
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Former owner, Raymond Gee 1866; acquired in 1976.
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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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North America
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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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Inuit--Newfoundland and Labrador
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Subject headings:
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Newfoundland and Labrador--Description and travel
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