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Elephant Island 1916, showing hut constructed from two ships boats

Image
Accession no.: N: 267
Title: Elephant Island 1916, showing hut constructed from two ships boats
Description: Watercolour by George Marston, Shackleton's Endurance Expedition 1914-17.
Medium: Watercolour
Artist: Marston, George
Note: Text, on note: 'Elephant Island, showing the Hut constructed from two ships boats, standing inverted on rocks, with sides of canvas which I made from old tents. It is a grey foggy morning and the glacier looms through the mist. G. Marston'.
Dimensions: Image:
  • Width: 370mm; height: 240mm
Mount:
  • Width: 555mm; height: 405mm