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Oomiak - or Womans Boat of the Savage Islands

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Date:

February 1824.

Reference:

R13133-176-0-E, Volume number: 11

Type of material:

Art

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Item ID number:

2953615

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Canadian Historical Prints and Watercolours Collection

Etchings and engravings of Esquimaux after drawings by Capt. G.F. Lyon

Oomiak - or Womans Boat of the Savage Islands
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Date(s):

February 1824.

Place:

London:

Place of creation:

United Kingdom

Publisher:

John Murray,

Extent:

1 print / estampe : engraving ; 13.9 x 22.5 cm (plate mark).

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Engraving after a drawing by Capt. G.F. Lyon, based on Captain Parry's arctic expedition of 1821-23. Image depicts a boat with paddles on the water, with Eskimo women and a child stepping out of it on to land.
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Artist: Lyon, George Francis, 1795-1832

Engraver: Finden, Edward Francis, 1791-1857

Publisher: Murray, John, 1810-fllg. 1868
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General note:

Inventory number, Lyon artist file: II-3b
Copy negative number: C-001045
Publication: from "The Private Journal of Captain G.F. Lyon of H.M.S. Hecla... Under Captain Parry..." [Parry's 2nd Arctic Voyage], London: 1824. Drawn by Capt. G.F. Lyon, Engraved by E. Finden, published by John Murray.

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Recto, l.r.: Engraved by Edwd. Finden.
Recto, l.c.: OOMIAK - OR WOMAN'S BOAT. / of the Savage Islands / Published Feby. 1824 by John Murray, London
Recto, l.l.: Drawn by Capt.n Lyon, R.N.
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SUBJ - NATIVES, INUIT - ACTIVITIES

SUBJ - TRANSPORTATION, WATER - UMIAKS
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Private
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
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Volume [R13133]

[Consultation 90 Open]

11 Item no. assigned by LAC 167

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Copyright: Expired
Credit: Library and Archives Canada, acc. no. R13133-167

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