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Antarctic Expedition: Gale in the Pack, 1842

Image
Accession no.: Y: 2008/8/1
Title: Antarctic Expedition: Gale in the Pack, 1842
Description: Oil painting on canvas by R.B. Beechey 1863 of HMS Erebus and Terror, in a Gale in the Pack, 20 Jan 1842. Seascape, in the foreground blocks of pack ice on a choppy sea, in the middle ground a large ship colliding with the surrounding blocks of ice, in the background a second ship is shown
Medium: Oil painting
Artist: Beechey, R.B.
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Dimensions: Image:
  • Width: 900mm; height: 620mm; depth: ?mm
Frame:
  • Width: 1155mm; height: 876mm; depth: 91mm