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The American Franklin Search Expedition - view in summer, King William's Land, 1870, (1881). Creator: Unknown.

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The American Franklin Search Expedition - view in summer, King William's Land, 1870, (1881). 'Some additional Illustrations of this arduous journey and sojourn of an exploring party in the Arctic Regions, from the Sketches of Mr. H. W. Klutschak...are engraved for the present Number of our Journal. The expedition [was] fitted out by the New York Geographical Society...Its overland sledge travelling, from the northern shore of Hudson's Bay to Simpson's Strait, and across that strait to King William's Land, with the long sojourn in that desolate country, occupied eleven months, including the return journey to Hudson's Bay...[We present a view] in King William's Land during the summer of 1879'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM25A42_438

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Droits gérés

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10,0Mo (1007,0Ko) / 20,3cm x 12,4cm / 2392 x 1459 (300dpi)

Mots clés

arts ice icy remote art island British Canada Arctic location century Britain newspapers press print expedition concept search B&W nunavut engraved engraving 19th century Arctic Circle black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News TGN wood engraving ILN newspaper landscape Unknown John Frederick Franklin John Franklin Sir John Franklin Sir John 19th-century The Illustrated London News Heinrich Klutschak Klutschak Heinrich Heinrich Wenzel Klutschak Klutschak Heinrich Wenzel Frederick Schwatka Schwatka Frederick Gustavus Schwatka Frederick Gustavus Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka King William Island King William Land