'Canoe broaching to in a gale of wind at sunrise, Aug. 23rd 1821' mb-width 6110 amongst them Russia and Germany

amongst them Russia and Germany

Inscribed in pencil top right 'Photog 253'

with the blowing up of St Paul's Battery

Sunbeams scored a 1-2-3 victory in the event

carts and carriages

'Canoe broaching to in a gale of wind at sunrise, Aug. 23rd 1821' mb-width 6110 amongst them Russia and GermanyUnable to return by sea to the mouth of the Coppermine River in August 1821, the expedition party tried to return to Fort Enterprise by land a gruelling journey during which Lieutenant Robert Hood, who drew the picture from which this engraving was produced, was shot dead by a Canadian guide. John Franklin's expedition of 1819 22 travelled via the Coppermine River to map the Canadian Arctic coast, as part of efforts to find the fabled North West