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Floeberg Beach from the ridge of Cape Rawson, 13 July 1876

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Accession no.: Y: 54/13/4
Title: Floeberg Beach from the ridge of Cape Rawson, 13 July 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 reverse of paper: '13th July 1876. Floe-berg Beach from ridge of Cape Rawson, looking due North - our Winter Quarters, 1875-76, Lat 82.27N 62.22W'. Holograph note on verso. Reproduced in E.L.Moss 'Polar sketches... sixteen chromolithographs' London, n.d. Photographic Negative Accession No. 767/1/10
Dimensions: Image:
  • Width: 355mm; height: 252mm
Mount:
  • Width: 555mm; height: 410mm