IMAGE
[Hood, Robert] ca 1790-1821 :[Morgans Rocks, upper part of Hill River, Canada] 19 September 1819
- Date
- 1819
- By
- Hood, Robert, active 1790-1821; Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018
- Reference
- A-239-001
- Description
View across water, with rocks and an Indian canoe in the foreground, one figure seated in the canoe, another on shore. There are distant islands and headlands with conifers in the background
This drawing is labelled No. 1. The first drawing on this expedition is described in Franklin, J. Narrative of a journey to the Polar sea... London, 1823. p. 34 as 'the subject of Mr Hood's accurate pencil'
Made on Sir John Franklin's first overland expedition, 1819-22
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 160 x 238 mm
Provenance: Purchased with a collection of drawings by William Swainson and family suggesting Swainson as a former owner of this group of Canadian sketches.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 drawing(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Pencil and watercolour 160 x 238 mm
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