Kemig.
On Stone by J. Brandard, from the original Drawing by Captain Ross. Printed by Graf & Soret.
[London: A. W. Webster, 156 Regent Street, 1835.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 170 x 150mm (6¾ x 6")
A woman of the Boothia Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada, seated half-naked in an igloo. An illustration from the separately-issued appendix to 'Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage' by John Ross (1835). Ross was forced by ice to stop at the Boothia peninsula (which he named after his patron Sir Felix Booth) for four years while searching for the North-West Passage.
See Abbey Travel 536 for the 'Narrative', with appendix mentioned but not listed.
[Ref: 61414] £160.00
[London: A. W. Webster, 156 Regent Street, 1835.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 170 x 150mm (6¾ x 6")
A woman of the Boothia Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada, seated half-naked in an igloo. An illustration from the separately-issued appendix to 'Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage' by John Ross (1835). Ross was forced by ice to stop at the Boothia peninsula (which he named after his patron Sir Felix Booth) for four years while searching for the North-West Passage.
See Abbey Travel 536 for the 'Narrative', with appendix mentioned but not listed.
[Ref: 61414] £160.00