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Intrepid driven against an iceberg

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Description

Watercolour sketch of Arctic expedition possibly by David Markham designed for illustrated edition, never published, of C.R. Markham's 'In Franklin's Footsteps'. Intrepid driven against an iceberg.

The work is an imagined scene based on an episode described in the above book.

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image © Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge

From the Watercolour World

Location

Whale Sound, Greenland

Country

Greenland

Medium

Watercolour

Tww Comment

imagined scene based on text page 123 of https://archive.org/details/franklinsfootste00mark/page/n135/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater