Views in Hudson's Bay : taken by a gentleman on the spot in the years 1823 and 1824 : illustrative of the customs, manners and costumes of those tribes of North American Indians amongst whom Captn. Franklin has passed in his present and former arduous undertaking : to be continued in numbers.

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Title(s):: Views in Hudson's Bay : taken by a gentleman on the spot in the years 1823 and 1824 : illustrative of the customs, manners and costumes of those tribes of North American Indians amongst whom Captn. Franklin has passed in his present and former arduous undertaking : to be continued in numbers.
Published/Created:: [London] : [William Day], [1825?]
Physical Description:: 6 prints in 1 volume : hand-colored lithographs ; sheets 28.7 x 42.7 cm
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2016 6
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/9770082
Notes:: Title from publisher's original printed wrappers.
Plates signed: "W. Day lithog., 59 Gt. Queen Street."
"[R.P.] Pelly ... commissioned an artist called H. Jones, R.I.A., to copy six of [Peter] Rindisbacher's pictures ... and after getting them lithographed in London, made up books of them ..."--Wilson. In the copies made by Jones, the figure of Pelly is substituted for that of Andrew Bulger, the subject of Rindisbacher's original works.
Wilson, C. "Pelly's picture books." In The beaver, Dec. 1945, page 36
BAC: British Art Center copy is hand-colored. In publisher's original wrappers.
Subject Terms:: Bulger, Andrew H., 1789–1858.
Indians of North America -- Northwest, Canadian.
Pelly, Robert Parker, 1790–1867.
Red River Settlement -- Pictorial works.
Form/Genre:: Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1825.
Contributors:: Rindisbacher, Peter, 1806–1834, artist.
Day, William, 1797–1845, lithographer.
Jones, H., R. I. A.
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