The Devil's Thumb Partially Enveloped in a Fog

The Devil's Thumb Partially Enveloped in a Fog

Bound volume

John L. Dunmore

Maker
American, 1833–1897

George P. Critcherson

Maker
American, 1823–1892

The Devil's Thumb Partially Enveloped in a Fog

The Arctic Regions: Illustrated with Photographs Taken on an Art Expedition to Greenland


August 1869
Albumen silver print
Image: 8 1/16 × 11 3/16 in. (20.4 × 28.4 cm)
Mount: 19 × 24 1/4 in. (48.2 × 61.6 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
1979.0071.0015
Inscriptions Printed on mount on recto, BC: No. 92.* The Devil's Thumb partially enveloped in a Fog, with the first of the Drift Ice from the Pack, which was being forced towards the Land, from \ which we escaped through a narrow Lead; had we been hemmed in, we should have had to Winter there.
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