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| Accession no.: | M: 2011/2 | ||||||||||
| Object name: | Cotton case | ||||||||||
| Title: | Cotton case | ||||||||||
| Description: | A cotton case, perhaps a book jacket or album cover, made by Dorothy Irving Bell to commemorate the members of the Polar Party of the British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13 (Terra Nova). | ||||||||||
| Artist: | Irving-Bell, Dorothy | ||||||||||
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| Number of items: | 1 | ||||||||||
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A cotton book jacket. It is made of two pieces of cloth stitched together, with the short edges folded over and stitched to form flaps. The front is decorated with a hand-painted art nouveau-style design of daffodils in green and yellow, a central box containing the text 'ENGLISHMEN CAN ENDURE HARDSHIP, AND MEET DEATH WITH AS GREAT A FORTITUDE AS EVER IN THE PAST.', five scrolls bearing the names of the members of the polar party, and the crest from the British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13 (Terra Nova). |
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