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Museum catalogue: Polar Art Collection

 

[Unidentified scene showing two cairns and an observer, 1875]

Image
Accession no.: Y: 54/13/18
Title: [Unidentified scene showing two cairns and an observer, 1875]
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: No text on reverse. Likely 1875. See E.L.Moss. 'Shores of the Polar sea' London, marcus Ward and Co. 1878 p.24
Dimensions: Image:
  • Width: 355mm; height: 252mm
Mount:
  • Width: 555mm; height: 410mm