Lot Essay
Presumably preparatory drawings, after Captain Lyon's sketches, for Edward Finden's engravings in Capt. W.E. Parry's Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-west Passage etc., London, 1824, opposite pp. 266 and 508.
Captain Parry set out in 1821 in the ships Hecla and Fury on his second voyage in search of a Northwest Passage in a lower latitude than Melville Sound. He explored the lands in the north-west of Hudson Bay and discovered Fury and Hecla Strait, separating Baffin Island from Melville Peninsular. His journal of the voyage (including twenty-six engraved plates) was published in 1824.
One illustrated.
Captain Parry set out in 1821 in the ships Hecla and Fury on his second voyage in search of a Northwest Passage in a lower latitude than Melville Sound. He explored the lands in the north-west of Hudson Bay and discovered Fury and Hecla Strait, separating Baffin Island from Melville Peninsular. His journal of the voyage (including twenty-six engraved plates) was published in 1824.
One illustrated.