Photograph on card
Category
Photographs
Date
1875 - 1877
Materials
Cloth, Leather, Paper, Photographic paper, Rexine
Collection
Hughenden, Buckinghamshire
NT 428862.20
Summary
Photograph NO. 16 LAT. 78° 51’ N. ALEXANDRA HAVEN. THE TWO SHIPS AT ANCHOR, 4 AUG. 1875, ON THEIR WAY UP HAYES SOUND. CAPES CAMPERDOWN AND ALBERT IN THE DISTANCE. Black and white albumin photograph mounted on card. Mount has handwritten ‘16’ at top, and ‘London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, 110 and 108, Regent Street, and 54, Cheapside.’ printed near bottom. Two ships anchored in the water. Both appear blurred. In the foreground land extends across the bottom of the photograph. Behind, 5 small icebergs in the water. Headlands in the background and on the right-hand side.