Cliffs, 22 July

Artist

Edward Lawton Moss

Collection

Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge

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https://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/catalogue/article/y56.21.3

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Cliffs near Sanderson his Hope. Watercolours by Staff Surgeon Edward Lawton Moss painted during Sir George Nares' British Arctic Expedition, 1875-76 in H.M.S.Alert and Discovery.

Text, on front: '22 July 74'. Text, on reverse: 'Cliffs ... the colours are not in the slightest degree exaggerated. IF I had time I would have put ships in foreground, Alert towing Discovery'. Holograph note on verso.

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