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Ravine near Port Leopold.

Ravine near Port Leopold.Dedicated by special permission to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, by their Lordships most obedient Servant, W.H.Browne, Lieut.t R.N. (Late of H.M.S. 'Enterprise').

Litho.d by Cha.s Haghe after the original by Lieut. W.H.Browne. Printed by Day & Son.
London, Pub.d Jan.y 31st 1850 by Ackermann & Co., 96, Strand.
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 135 x 180mm, 5¼ x 7".
Browne and his ship H.M.S. enterprise joined Sir James Clark Ross in his search for Sir John Franklin, 1848-1849. They wintered in Port Leopold, a Hudson's Bay Company trading post at the far northeast corner of Somerset Island in Nunavut, Canada.
Abbey: Travel 637, pl 2, two views on one plate.
[Ref: 10918]  £80.00


 

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