Live Auction 9540Travel, Science & Natural History
Attributed to Captain George Francis Lyon, RN, (1795-1832)
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Attributed to Captain George Francis Lyon, RN, (1795-1832)

Eskimaux Children Dancing

Closed10 October 2013

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Attributed to Captain George Francis Lyon, RN, (1795-1832)
Eskimaux Children Dancing
inscribed and dated 'Eskimaux Children dancing Iqliulik 1823' (along the lower edge)
grey wash on paper
6¾ x 9½in. (17.2 x 24.2cm.)
together with a watercolour after(?) Lyon's 'A Tuarick on his Maherrie' (2)

Specialist note

The drawings relate to subjects engraved in W.E. Parry's Journal of a second voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years 1821-22-23 in His Majesty's ships Fury and Hecla, London, 1824, and in Lyon's A Narrative of Travels in North Africa in the years 1818, 1819 and 1820, accompanied by Geographical Notices of Soudan and of the Course of the Niger, published in 1821, both works illustrated with plates from Lyon's drawings.