SIR JOHN ROSS (1777-1856) George CRUIKSHANK Landing the Treasures, or Results of the Polar Expedition!!! London: G.Humphrey, 18 Januray 1819. Hand-coloured engraved plate (image: 217 x 543mm), by Cruikshank. (Repaired tear, old crease, remains of old mount on verso.) Framed and glazed. A fine caricature lampooning Sir John Ross' expedition. Ross, aboard the Isabella, and Edward Parry, on the Alexander set sail in April 1818, with orders to try and make the North-West Passage through Davis' Strait. He was unsuccesful, but did make a number of notable discoveries, including the re-discovery of Baffin's Bay. He returned in the same year. The present print may have been occasioned by the controversy between Ross and Captain Sabine (a member of the scientific staff on the expedition) concerning Ross' description of what later proved to be a non-existant range of mountains which he had called the Croker mountains: a sea-bird labelled "Sabini" [sic.] is shown impalled on the end of a marine's bayonet. The Croker "mountains", and the suspicion the Ross had invented them as a convenient excuse not to push westward, were to overshadow the rest of his career. Cohn 1303.
SIR JOHN ROSS (1777-1856) George CRUIKSHANK Landing the Treasures, or Results of the Polar Expedition!!! London: G.Humphrey, 18 Januray 1819. Hand-coloured engraved plate (image: 217 x 543mm), by Cruikshank. (Repaired tear, old crease, remains of old mount on verso.) Framed and glazed. A fine caricature lampooning Sir John Ross' expedition. Ross, aboard the Isabella, and Edward Parry, on the Alexander set sail in April 1818, with orders to try and make the North-West Passage through Davis' Strait. He was unsuccesful, but did make a number of notable discoveries, including the re-discovery of Baffin's Bay. He returned in the same year. The present print may have been occasioned by the controversy between Ross and Captain Sabine (a member of the scientific staff on the expedition) concerning Ross' description of what later proved to be a non-existant range of mountains which he had called the Croker mountains: a sea-bird labelled "Sabini" [sic.] is shown impalled on the end of a marine's bayonet. The Croker "mountains", and the suspicion the Ross had invented them as a convenient excuse not to push westward, were to overshadow the rest of his career. Cohn 1303.
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