Photograph on card
Category
Photographs
Date
1875 - 1877
Materials
Cloth, Leather, Paper, Photographic paper, Rexine
Collection
Hughenden, Buckinghamshire
NT 428862.18
Summary
Photograph NO. 14. “DISCOVERY” IN PAYER HARBOUR. LAT. 78° 41 N. BREVOORT ISLAND IN THE BACKGROUND. Black and white albumin photograph mounted on card. Mount has handwritten ‘14’ at top, and ‘London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, 110 and 108, Regent Street, and 54, Cheapside.’ printed near bottom. View of the harbour with rocky bank in the foreground. Large ship facing left with jibboom, mizzen, main mast and foremast on the water behind, row boats are suspended from its side. Members of crew can be seen on the deck. Iceberg and headlands in the distance.