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Expedition landing in a storm, Aug 23 1821, and, The Esquimaux pillaging the boats

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Accession no.: Y: 78/12/2
Title: Expedition landing in a storm, Aug 23 1821, and, The Esquimaux pillaging the boats
Description: Double plates from John Franklin's 'Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in 1819-22, with a Brief Account of the Second Journey in 1825-27' (London, 1829).
Medium: Print
Artist: Back, George
Note: Possibly proofs, based on drawings by Lieut Hood and Lieut Back, engraved by Finden, published in 1828 by John Murray, London.
Dimensions: Image:
  • Width: 146mm; height: 190mm
Sheet:
  • Width: 304mm; height: 430mm