NARES BRITISH ARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1875-76 MITCHELL (WILLIAM FREDERICK) 'H.M.S. 'Alert.' September...
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NARES BRITISH ARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1875-76 MITCHELL (WILLIAM FREDERICK) 'H.M.S. 'Alert.' September 1st, 1875. N. Lat. 82° 24°' ', mounted on card (with printed caption), some scattered single spots, framed and glazed, image 250 x 355mm., faintly signed and dated 'W.F. Mitchell 1877' (lower right) Footnotes: A watercolour of H.M.S. Alert commemorating the day on which, as recorded by H.W. Feilden 'The Alert rounds Cape Union, Most Northern Latitude Yet Attained by Any Ship... 12h. meridian hoisted ensign being further north than any other ship' (The Arctic Journal of Captain Henry Wemyss Feilden, R.A., The Naturalist in H.M.S. Alert 1875-1876, edited by Trevor H. Levere, Hakluyt Society, 2019, p.103). Marine artist William Frederick Mitchell (1845-1914) made several paintings and watercolours of both the HMS Alert, a 17-gun Royal Navy wooden screw sloop launched in 1856, and HMS Discovery, the second ship taken on the Nares Expedition. Provenance: Captain Henry Wemyss Feilden (1838-1921), naturalist on the British Arctic Expedition, 1875-1876; thence by descent. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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