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HMS Alert at her Winter Quarters, March 1876

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Accession no.: Y: 54/13/22
Title: HMS Alert at her Winter Quarters, March 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 front: 'HMS Alert at her winterquarters, Floe-berg Beach, sketch outlined in pencil at Temp -73'.
Dimensions: Image:
  • Width: 355mm; height: 252mm
Mount:
  • Width: 555mm; height: 410mm