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The dawn of 1876, HMS Alert in Winter Quarters

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Accession no.: Y: 54/13/9
Title: The dawn of 1876, HMS Alert in Winter Quarters
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: 'Returning day, a midnight sketch in early March 1876, Winter Quarters, Looking North'.
Dimensions: Image:
  • Width: 355mm; height: 252mm
Mount:
  • Width: 555mm; height: 410mm