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| Accession no.: | Y: 2008/1/2 |
| Title: | HMS Assistance in winter quarters: returning daylight |
| Description: | Watercolour by Leo Cheyne |
| Medium: | Watercolour |
| Artist: | Cheyne, Leo |
| Note: | Painting features HMS Assistance and HMS Pioneer in winter quarters. Likely based on a view by W.W. May which appeared in 'A Series of Fourteen Sketches, Made during the Voyage up Wellington Channel in Search of Sir J. Franklin', published in 1855. May wrote how 'on a clear day at the end of January, when the sun was below the horizon, but sufficiently strong to give a beautiful tinge of pink over that part of the landscape, I was walking on the floe, and observed that all the shadows were the wrong way [because] the moon was more powerful than the returning sun'. |
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