'Portrait of a Stone Indian' water pump 'Essence of Parliament'

'Essence of Parliament'

but with a tartan style design featuring on the skirt and bodice

This painting forms part of plate 3 of 'The Thanatophidia of India: being a description of the venomous snakes of the Indian peninsula

The Stationers' Almanack for 1769

'Portrait of a Stone Indian' water pump 'Essence of Parliament'Franklin's party encountered the Stone Indian tribe in January 1820, on their journey from Hudson Bay to the Great Slave Lake. John Franklin's expedition of 1819 22 travelled via the Coppermine River to map the Canadian Arctic coast, as part of efforts to find the fabled North West Passage. Illustration from Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, by John Franklin (London, 1823). Original: aquatint. 1823