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2013.15.6

Engraving of Inuit hunters by Edward Finden (after a drawing by Captain George Francis Lyon)

2013.15.6

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Collection type
Object
Description
Engraving of Inuit hunters by Edward Finden (after a drawing by Captain George Francis Lyon)
Long description
Engraving of Inuit hunters by Edward Finden (after a drawing by Captain George Francis Lyon), captioned 'CANOE OF THE SAVAGE ISLANDS./ Hudson's Strait.' Published in London by John Murray in January 1824.
Geographical reference
Canada
Northern America > North America > Canada
Nunavut Iqaluit Upper Savage Islands
Cultural groups
Inuit (Greenland)
Inuit
Person
Maker Edward Finden
Maker George Francis Lyon
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source Unknown Source
Date / Period
Date made: 1821-1824 Date made: 01/1824
Date collected
By 2012
Acquisition information
Found unentered: 2012
Materials and processes
Material Paper Plant, Material Ink, Process Printed
Dimensions
Height 193 mm, Width 220 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 2013.15.6
Research and responses

George Francis Lyon (1795-1832) was a naval officer and explorer. In 1821 he was promoted commander, and 'appointed to the Hecla under the order of Captain William Edward Parry in the Fury. The expedition, Parry's second in the search for the north-west passage, sailed on 8 May 1821, entered the Arctic region through Hudson Strait, examined Repulse Bay and the neighbouring coast of Melville peninsula, and wintered at a small island to the eastward of the Frozen Strait. The next summer they went further north and entered Fury and Hecla Strait, but the season being then far advanced they turned back, wintered at Igloolik [...], and came home in autumn 1823, as signs of scurvy among the crew made it inadvisable to stay': Elizabeth Baigent, 'Lyon, George Francis (1795-1832)', in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition), http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17274 (accessed 14 January 2013). For more information on Lyon's voyage, see George F. Lyon, The Private Journal of Captain G. F. Lyon of H.M.S. Hecla during the Recent Voyage of Discovery under Captain Parry (1824). [PG 14/01/2013]

Edward Francis Finden (1791-1857) studied under the engraver James Mitan and, like his brother William Finden, became a specialist in small-scale book illustration. [PG 14/01/2013]

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