A winter view in the Athapuscow lake.

• Main Author: Hearne, Samuel, 1745-1792 (dessinateur); Saunders, Joseph (graveur)
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1795
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Pacific; Indian; Saunders; Gauche; La Table
• Online Access: http://calypso.bib.umontreal.ca/cdm/ref/collection/_gravu/id/224

Scène d'extérieur représentant un paysage d'hiver d'une forêt dégagée au lac Athapuscow. Plate IV (en haut à gauche); A WINTER VIEW in the ATHAPUSCOW LAKE, by SAM.L HEARNE, 1771. London Published Jan.y 1st., 1795, by Cadell & Davies, Strand (en bas au centre); To face Page 248 (en haut à droite); J. Saunders sculp.t (en bas à droite); S. H. delin. (en bas à gauche). Titre tiré de la table des illustrations. En regard de la page 248 Voici comment le récit présente la scène illustrée : "After expending some days in hunting beaver, we proceeded to cross the Athapuscow Lake but as we had lost much time in hunting deer and beaver, which were very plentiful on some of the islands, it was the ninth of January before we arrived on the South side. This lake, from the best information which I could get from the natives, is about one hundred and twenty leagues long from East to West, and twenty wide from North to South. The point where we crossed it is said to be the narrowest. It is full of islands most of which are clothed with fine tall poplars, birch, and pines, and are well stocked with Indian deer. On some of the large islands we also found several beaver but this must be understood only of such island as had large ponds in them for not one beaver-house was to be seen on the margin of any of them.” p. 248. Référence(s) : Voir pour une comparaison des illustrations du dernier voyage de Cook et du voyage de Hearne : Philippe Despoix, "The exchanged Portrait and the Lethal Picture : Visualisation Techniques and Native Knowledge in Samuel Hearne’s Sketches from His Trek to the Arctic Ocean and John Webber’s Record of the Northern Pacific", dans Gestes admirables ou la culture visuelle de l’imprimé/ The Visual Culture of Print. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 23 : 4 (été 2011), p. 667-689. Chercheur : Philippe Despoix.