Museum catalogue: Polar Art Collection

A little music


Accession no.:	Y: 54/13/45
Title:	A little music
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: 'A Musical Evening on lower deck of the Alert during passage out. I should have represented the ship rolling - for she was rarely out of a full wind and when she was the sea had not time to go down before we were in another - Rolling or not however the men often went in for a little music. The big drum worked by our talented and energetic ship's cook generally came in a long way ahead. There is good reason to believe that up to the present time nobody else ever plays the same instrument twice ...'
Dimensions:	Image: Width: 205mm; height: 165mm Mount: Width: 410mm; height: 280mm