Title:
Our party Across the mountains (from a photograph)
Creator/Contributor:
Cooper, J., engraver (engraver)
Date:
1865
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0502:01--A
Format:
print on paper mounted on board: engraving
10.3 x 17.2 cm., on mount 18.8 x 27.8 cm.
Content/Description:
Group portrait of Viscount William Fitzwilliam Milton and Dr. William Butler Cheadle seated with Assiniboine Indian man, woman
(Indian man's wife), and boy; with rifles, an ax, pipe and other items on ground. Frontispiece to book describing the 1862-1863
Milton and Cheadle expedition across the Northwest Passage of Canada. Mr. O'B (not named otherwise in book) was a member of
the expedition.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Title from caption in book. Handwritten (LC, on mount): Boy, Viscount Milton, Dr. Cheadle, Assiniboine [Indian] and wife.
Printed (LR, within image): J. Cooper, sc. From publication: The North-West passage by land (London: Cassell, Petter, and
Galpin, 1865), frontispiece.
Subjects:
Canada;
Expeditions & surveys;
Indians of North America
Genre/Format:
Engravings;
Illustrations;
Portraits