Museum catalogue: Polar Art Collection

Godhavn Harbour, Disco Island, July 10 1875


Accession no.:	Y: 54/13/1/1
Title:	Godhavn Harbour, Disco Island, July 10 1875
Description:	One of a set of 16 chromolithographs, based on the work of Staff Surgeon Edward Lawton Moss, R.N. of H.M.S.Alert during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-76. 'The Danish settlements on the coast of Greenland are divided into two Inspectorates, a northern and a southern. Godhavn is the head-quarters of the northern, The view is from the rocks above the little village of Leively, looking down on the harbour that gives the district its name. The Lyngemarken cliffs beyond are a fine sample of the southern shores of Disco. A few houses of Danish officials, some storehouses, a shurch, a school-house, and the huts of the Eskimo make the village. A pair of Eskimo women, unmarried, as may be seen by their red top-knots, are busy with their laundry work at a pool amongst the glaciated rocks of the foreground'. - Extract from 'Shores of the Polar Sea'.
Medium:	Print
Artist:	Moss, Edward Lawton
Note:	Published in 1878 by Marcus Ward, London.
Dimensions:	Image: Width: 280mm; height: 195mm Sheet: Width: 480mm; height: 330mm