Arctic Images 1818-1859

• Main Author: Høvik, Ingeborg
• Other Authors: Thomson, Richard, Coltman, Viccy, other
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Edinburgh 2013
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic representations; nineteenth-century; art history; Northwest Passage; Endeavour; inuit; Northwest passage
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/12261

This thesis asks whether there existed a unified view of the Arctic during the time period connected to the high point of British endeavour to find a Northwest Passage, from the first expeditions of the nineteenth-century in 1818 to the return of the last Franklin search party in 1859, forty-one yea...