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| Accession no.: | Y: 64/10/8 |
| Title: | Sledging over hummocky ice |
| Description: | One of a series of eight chromolithograph sketches by Lieut S. Gurney Creswell, of the voyage of HMS Investigator under Captain McClure. 'This scene is intended as a specimen of the peculiar difficulties incident to Arctic travelling' - extract from McClure's 'Despatches'. |
| Medium: | Lithograph |
| Artist: | Cresswell, Samuel Gurney |
| Note: | Published on 15 May 1854, by Day and Son, London, and published as a set on 25 July 1854. See Y: 56/22/8. |
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