Museum catalogue: Polar Art Collection

Passing in hummock ice for culinary purposes


Accession no.:	Y: 54/13/50
Title:	Passing in hummock ice for culinary purposes
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:	Sketch
Artist:	Moss, Edward Lawton
Note:	Text, written on reverse: 'Feburary 1876. Winter Quarters, 1875-76. Portside of deck looking forward. Passing in hummock ice for culinary purposes. It is drawn from the hummock 150 yds off to the Port gangway on a working sledge and passed in to the ice house or in the galley. The condenser (or rather melter) opens in the fore part of the ice house, or if the weather is bad from the ice heap enclosed in a circular snow wall 30 yds from the gangway. The men have decorated the backs of their ... snow overalls with all sorts of designs to break the monotony of the prospect for those that follow them in the sledge team'.
Dimensions:	Image: Width: 135mm; height: 112mm Frame: Width: 410mm; height: 280mm