image credit Yale Center for British Art | Licence: Public DomainYale Center for British Art
image credit Yale Center for British Art | Licence: Public DomainYale Center for British Art

The Resolution Beating through the Ice, with the Discovery in the most eminent Danger in the Distance

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From the Collection

Description

Medium: Graphite; verso: transferred soft ground on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Credit: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Collective Title: Views in the South Seas 1776-1780
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Image Credit

image credit Yale Center for British Art

From the Watercolour World

Location

Bering Strait

Medium

Line drawing

Tags

ice
ships

Tww Comment

This documents HMS Discovery and HMS Resolution's search for a Northwest Passage from the western coast of North America. The ships almost became trapped in the Arctic ice while trying to pass through the Bering Strait.