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Map of the Northwest Passage

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Date:

1854

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2927858

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Natural Resources Canada fonds

Surveys and Mapping Branch sous-fonds

Surveys and Mapping Branch

Departmental Map Library

A Series of Eight Sketches in Colour Of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Investigator

Map of the Northwest Passage
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1854

Place:

London, England

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Publisher:

Day & Son and Ackermann & Co.

Place of printing:

Gate Street, London, England

Extent:

1 print / estampe : lithograph
Support 60.500 x 44.000 cm

Language of material:

no language

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A map illustrating Cresswell's arctic expedition, along with the routes and discoveries of other British arctic explorers, A series of eight lithographic views and one map bound with title page, two folios of descriptive text.
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Artist: Cresswell, S. Gurney (Samuel Gurney), 1827-1867

Engraver: Simpson, William, 1823-1899

Engraver: Walker, E. active 1854-1856

Publisher: Day & Son

Publisher: Ackermann and Company

Printer: Day & Son
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General note:

Part of "A Series of Eight Sketches in Colour (Together with a Chart of the Route) Of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Investigator (Captain M'Clure), During the Discovery of the North-West Passage" by: Lieut. S. Gurney Cresswell.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: Not transcribed.
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SUBJ. - Depicting Map Describing the Northwest Passage - 1854
Source:

Government

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1979-064 PIC
00009
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access through an art archivist. No restriction on use for reproduction or publication

Item no. assigned by LAC [1979-064] BK-290

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1979-64-9
Copyright: Expired

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