Ethnographic, Travel & Exploration

23x17 cm

CAPTAIN ROSS PURUING HIS DISCOVERIES AT CAPE GARRY.
J.Archer.
Woodblock engraving by Joshua Archer pubished by W. Edwards in The Guide to Knowledge edited by W. Pinnock from 1833. The woodblock was inked with a roller wiothout working the ink into the engraved cuts thereby printing with a white line on a black ground.
Sir John Ross (1777-1856) and his nephew Sir James Clark Ross (1800-1862) were polar pioneers and made great advances in exploring and charting polar regions in the search for a Northwest Passage.