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| Accession no.: | Y: 54/13/39 |
| Title: | Upernivick. [Upernavik] The most northerly settlement in the world |
| 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, on reverse: 'Upernavick ... July 22 ... the most norhterly settlement in the world ... lookind west by south. Characteristics - rocks and boulders, black houses with white window shutters, and dogs. The Governor's house is over the women's heads. The white building with the strong sloping whitewashed stone walls is the store, then comes the church, then the minister's house. We sail for Melville Bay in half hour ... the only sketch taken here'. |
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