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Museum catalogue: Polar Art Collection

 

Sverresborg trapping station, Vegasund and Traill Ø mountains, NE Greenland, July 05.

Image
Accession no.: Y: 2012/20/165
Object name: Chalk and charcoal sketch
Title: Sverresborg trapping station, Vegasund and Traill Ø mountains, NE Greenland, July 05.
Description: On this day the artist walked eastwards from the Western Camp with David Shaw, surveying an Inuit sunken dwelling on the way to the now derelict Sverresborg trapping station. En route they encountered two herds of musk-oxen (7-8 musk-oxen in each herd), one of which came very clase to the trapping station.
Medium: Chalk and charcoal sketch
Artist: Woolmore, Ray
Note: Sverresborg trapping station, on the southern coast of Geographical Society Ø. (No. 232 in Peter Schmidt-Mikkelsen 1994). Lat. 72°51'N, long. 22°57'W. (Danmark-Gronland 1:250,000 Sheet 72 Ø.2 Kong Oscars Fjord)
Dimensions:
  • Picture: Width: 220mm, height: 152mm
  • mount: Dimensions: ?