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| Accession no.: | N: 1542 |
| Title: | Situation of HM Ships Fury and Hecla, at Igloolik, 1822-23 |
| Description: | Print drawn by Captain G.F.Lyon and engraved by Edward Finden from William Edward Parry's 'Journal of a Second Voyage for the discovery of a North-west Passage' (London, 1824). |
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| Artist: | Lyon, George Francis |
| Note: | Published in January 1824, by John Murray, London. See Parry, frontispiece. The ships are shown overwintering, locked into the ice off Igloolik. The men are depicted playing cricket upon the floe. |
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