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| Accession no.: | Y: 54/13/14 |
| Title: | Last of the Paleocrystic Floe, 1876 |
| Description: | One of set of 49 watercolours, 1 pencil sketch, 7 pen drawings, all the work of Staff Surgeon Edward Lawton Moss, R.N. of H.M.S.Alert during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-76. |
| Medium: | Watercolour |
| Artist: | Moss, Edward Lawton |
| Note: | Text, hand-written on reverse of paper: 'The last of the Paleocrystic floe, a solitary dovekie breaks the mirror of the sea. Cape Constitution of kane abeam and we are going 6 knots an hour southwards. [Kap Constitution] 10 p.m. 20 August 1876. The ice I see in foreground is in shade of high cliffs on our starborad side - the blue sea and distant ice is in sunlight.' Photographic Negative Accession No. T67/1/11 |
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