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An Eskimaux of Igloolik, in a bird-skin jacket carrying his canoe down to the water

Image
Accession no.: N: 1554
Title: An Eskimaux of Igloolik, in a bird-skin jacket carrying his canoe down to the water
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).
Medium: Print
Artist: Lyon, George Francis
Note: Published in February 1824, by John Murray, London. See Parry, p. 274.
Dimensions: Image:
  • Width: 270mm; height: 220mm
Frame:
  • Width: 555mm; height: 400mm