Museum catalogue: Polar Art Collection

Foulke Fiord and the inland ice of Greenland, July 28, 1875


Accession no.:	Y: 54/13/2/1
Title:	Foulke Fiord and the inland ice of Greenland, July 28, 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. 'Foulke Fiord is a narrow ice-scooped inlet in the coast of Greenland, at the entrance of Smith's Sound. Hayes made it his winter quarters; and Rensselaer Bay, where Kane spent his three winters, is close to the northward. On the shorre of the fiord, and under the red granite cliff in the foreground of the picture, a few ruined huts mark the site of the once populous Eskimo village of Etah - the capital of the Arctic Highlanders. At the head of the fiord an expanse of lake and valley leads to Brother John's Glacier of Kane, stretching down in the shape of a huge paw from the inland ice beyond. This continental ice lies thousands of feet thick over what little is known of the interior of Greenland, and looks like a vast frozen sea, but that its level is sensibly above the horizon' - 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