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The white wolf and a view of the Dog Rib Rock, and, blank plate

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Accession no.: Y: 78/12/6
Title: The white wolf and a view of the Dog Rib Rock, and, blank plate
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 a landscape by Lieut Back and a wolf by Lieut Hood`, engraved by Finden, published in 1828 by John Murray, London.
Dimensions: Image:
  • Width: 146mm; height: 190mm
Sheet:
  • Width: 304mm; height: 430mm