Museum catalogue: Polar Art Collection

Musk ox hunt, Discovery Harbour, Midnight, August 25 1875


Accession no.:	Y: 54/13/3/1
Title:	Musk ox hunt, Discovery Harbour, Midnight, August 25 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. 'Our first musk ox hunt led us to an isolated hill-top overlooking the bay in which HMS Discovery afterwards wintered. This sketch was made on the following evening, from the spot where seven of the herd had fallen. Looking southward across the bay, and beyond Bellot Island, Lady Franklin Sound extends away to the south-west; and at the other side of the sound Grinnell Land rises in a line of straight cliffs, and spreads away towards Cape Leiber on the left, and to the distant peaks of the Victoria and Albert range on the right' - 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