Museum catalogue: Polar Art Collection

On the northern march, April 8, 1876


Accession no.:	Y: 54/13/13/1
Title:	On the northern march, April 8, 1876
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. 'On the sixth day's march of the united northern and western parties from the ship, this sketch was outlined in pencil while the sledges passed across a floe, little if at all under one hundred and fifty feet in thickness. Like most heavy floes, its edges were piled with rubble ice, cemented and smoothed off with snow-drift, showing a perpendicular wall outside, but sloping inside to the general undulating surface. The easiest road lay right across it, and with the aid of picks a natural gap in its walls was soon converted into a practicable path. The united crews of the Bulldog and Marco Polo are hauling the latter sledge down through the gap, while the Challenger's and Poppie's have just reached the spot with the first of their sledges' - 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