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| Accession no.: | Y: 54/13/44 |
| Title: | Starboard cutter |
| 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: 'Starboard cutter, stern or ice boat on skids ...coast of Greeland near Holsteinborg. Officer of the Watch in Arctic summer dress enquiring what the temperature of sea water is - temperature falling indicate the approach of ice'. |
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