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Sketches of the second Parry Arctic expedition
Title
Sketches of the second Parry Arctic expedition.
Production
1821-1822.
Physical Description
1 v. (40 leaves) : ill. ; 35 x 49 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Bound in later quarter calf with marbled paper covers.
In English.
Selected exhibitions: "Wilde Americk: Discovery and Exploration of the New World" (Yale Center for British Art, 27 September-30 December, 2001); "America Pictured to the Life: Illustrated Works from the Paul Mellon Bequest" (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 3 May- 31 July, 2002)
Biographical / Historical Note
Sir William Parry's second expedition to the Arctic began in May 1821, on board the HMS Fury and HMS Hecla. Parry and his crew departed from England intending to pass through Hudson Strait and explore the territory to the west of Baffin Island in search of the Northwest Passage. Passing north of Southampton Island, they entered Repulse Bay, then looked for a passage in the bays and inlets west of Foxe Basin, but found nothing. Forced to stop, they wintered close to the coast. The arrival of a group of Inuit in February created interest for the crew and led to a friendly relationship. The Inuit told Parry of a strait that led to the sea in the west. When he was able to sail again, Parry got to the strait but found it blocked by ice. He crossed it on foot and got as far as the Gulf of Boothia. He named this strait "Fury and Hecla", after his ships. Hoping to cross it with his ships the following year, he spent another winter in the far north, close to Igloolik Island. But the ice remained and, the following summer, Parry put an end to this expedition, returning to England in October 1823. This voyage uncovered a little known sector of the Arctic and provided them with a wealth of information on the culture and way of life of the Inuit. Parry's account of the expedition was published in 1824 as Journal of a second voyage for the discovery of a North-west Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. G.F. Lyon's diary of the expedition was also published, under the title The private journal of Captain G.F. Lyon, of H.M.S. Hecla, during the recent voyage of discovery under Captain Parry.
Summary
Sketches made by G.F. Lyon during Sir William Edward Parry's second expedition to the Arctic in 1821 and1822. Sketches are in graphite with some yellow wash; captions are in pen and brown ink. All are undated. The sketches mostly relate to the life and customs of the Inuit people, and to the local wildlife, although there are also a few sketches of the ships themselves, and one of the crew playing leapfrog.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
October 17, 2007
Contents
Esquimaux, man and woman
A party going to attack a walrus
Wolves on scent of a herd of deer
Wolves pulling down a buck
Musk oxen
A wolf entering an ice-trap
Situation of the ships in calm water, by an iceberg
Esquimaux archer and spearman
Shooting the arctic gull, when it is pursuing the lesser gull
Esquimaux summer habitations
Esquimaux carrying his boat
Esquimaux working up to the ships in their canoes, and ooimacks, or family boats
Esquimaux attacking a polar bear
White fox decoyed into a pitfall
Two of the crew shooting a faun
Taking possession of a newly discover'd tract of land in the Kings name
Northern wolf-dog
A party shooting by side of an iceberg
Esquimaux watching a seal hole A seal caught
Whale and Grampus
White foxes
Sailors bartering with the Esquimaux
The ships in winter quarters
[untitled]
The ships cutting through the sludge-ice
Esquimaux accused of stealing a hatchet
Esquimaux killing deer by driving them through a narrow pass in the rock
A party shooting the ptarmigan
Rein deer
Esquimaux dragging home a sea horse
The white hare
The brown bear
Esquimaux visiting the ships
Sailors playing at leapfrog
A wolf catching a crow
Travelling over the snow in a family sledge
Consultation among the Esquimaux
Laplander
Esquimaux single sledge
Esquimaux village and its environs.
References
G.F. Lyon, Sketches of the second Parry Arctic expedition. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.
Cite as
G.F. Lyon, Sketches of the second Parry Arctic expedition. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Travel sketches - Arctic Regions.
Sketchbooks.
Graphite drawings.
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