print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.4968
- Title
- Object: North Hendon
- Description
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Arctic landscape; a large group of igloos built against the side of a mountain, with a European standing at the foot, to the left, addressing a group of Inuit people; after J. Ross; illustration to J Ross' 'Narrative of a second voyage in search of a North-West passage ...' (London, 1835).
Colour mezzotint with additional hand-colouring
- Production date
- 1835 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 160 millimetres (trimmed?)
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Width: 209 millimetres (trimmed?)
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Narrative of a second voyage in search of a North-West passage, and of a residence in the Arctic regions during the years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833
- Acquisition date
- 2010
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2010,7081.4968
