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| Accession no.: | Y: 64/10/2 |
| Title: | Bold Headland on Baring Island |
| Description: | One of a series of eight chromolithograph sketches by Lieut S. Gurney Creswell, of the voyage of HMS Investigator under Captain McClure. ' We continued working to windward the whole of the night, and by 9.30am of the 7th of September were off the South cape, a fine bold headland, the cliffs rising perpendicularly upwards of a thousand feet, which was named 'Lord Nelson's Head', in memory of the hero whose early career was connected with Arctic adventure' - see McClure's 'Despatches'. |
| Medium: | Lithograph |
| Artist: | Cresswell, Samuel Gurney |
| Note: | Published on 1 June 1854, by Day and Son, London, and published as a set on 25 July 1854. See Y: 56/22/2. |
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