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Launching boats across a reef opposite to Mount Conybeare, and distant view of the British Chain of Mountains

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Accession no.: N: 1580
Title: Launching boats across a reef opposite to Mount Conybeare, and distant view of the British Chain of Mountains
Description: Plate from Sir John Franklin's 'Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1825-27' (London, 1828), see p. 133.
Medium: Steel engraving
Artist: Back, George
Note: Print, after sketch by Capt Back, 19 July 1826, engraved by E. Finden. Published in April 1828, by John Murray, London.
Dimensions: Image:
  • Width: 268mm; height: 220mm
Mount:
  • Width: 555mm; height: 405mm