
Sujet
'The ships of Lord Mulgrave's expedition of discovery embedded in ice in the Polar Regions', 1774. Artist: John Cleveley the Younger.
Légende
'The ships of Lord Mulgrave's expedition of discovery embedded in ice in the Polar Regions', 1774. HMS 'Racehorse' and 'Carcass' sailed from the Nore on the sandbank of the Thames Estuary, under the command of Captain Constantine John Phipps to Spitzbergen in the Svalbard archipelago. The 'Carcass' was comanded by Commander Skeffington Lutwidge, with a young Horatio Nelson on board as a midshipman. Watercolour held at the Victoria And Albert Museum. From Adventures By Sea From Art of Old Time, by Basil Lubbock. [The Studio Ltd., London, 1925]
The Print Collector collection
Date
1774
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM19C81_034
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
42,0Mo (4,1Mo) / 36,8cm x 28,6cm / 4344 x 3383 (300dpi)