Ross Expedition | "Erebus" and "Terror" in the ice, 1844, signed by Fitch, framed with wood from HMS Terror

Ross Expedition—Walter Hood Fitch

HMS Erebus and HMS Terror trapped in the ice

large watercolour and gouache on paper, signed and inscribed lower left ("W. Fitch from a sketch | by | J.E. Davis Esq. | 1844"), framed and glazed, 370 x 492mm. unframed, 620 x 725mm. framed

A DRAMATIC VISUAL DEPICTION OF THE SHIPS FROM JAMES CLARK ROSS'S ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, FRAMED WITH WOOD FROM H.M.S. TERROR. A brass plaque on the frame reads "This frame is made from | the Rudder of the HMS Terror | torn from the stern post by the | Ice in Lat 76.40S. Long. 158.00W | 20 Jany 1842".

PROVENANCE:

Joseph Dalton Hooker, thence by family descent