Collection search - HMS Griper off the West end of Melville Island

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HMS Griper off the West end of Melville Island

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Date:

August 1820

Type of material:

Art

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Item ID number:

2880806

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Andrew Motz Skene fonds

HMS Griper off the West end of Melville Island
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Date(s):

August 1820

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour over pencil on wove paper
Support 22.200 x 37.000 cm

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Expedition led by W.E. Parry, 1819-20; Skene was midshipman on the Griper. For an account of the scene, W.E. Parry, "Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage ..." (London: John Murray, 1820) p.228-250.

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Artist: Skene, Andrew Motz, 1796-1849

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General note:

sketchbook: A.M. Skene Sketchbook folio 58 verso and 59 recto

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed., Inscription: in pen and ink, t.: HMS. Griper off the West end of Melville Island, /HMS. Hecla round the point a few miles to the West - ; in pen and ink, u.r.: Lat.74.25N/Long 113.40W (Complete Transcription)
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Ships

Northwest Territories

Transportation

transport

Melville island (N.W.T.)
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Private

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1988-043 PIC
000058
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access restricted. No restrictions on use for reproduction or publication

Item no. assigned by LAC [000058] 000058 V

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [000058] C-132217

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1988-43-58V/59R Purchased in 1988 with a contribution from the Minister of Communications under the terms of the Cultural Property Export and Import Act.
Copyright: Expired

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