Photograph on card
Category
Photographs
Date
1875 - 1877
Materials
Cloth, Leather, Paper, Photographic paper, Rexine
Collection
Hughenden, Buckinghamshire
NT 428862.23
Summary
Photograph NO. 19. LAT. 79° 2’ N. THE ALERT BESET IN HAYES SOUND ON THE NIGHT OF THE 5TH AUGUST 1875. LOOKING TO THE N.W. Black and white albumin photograph mounted on card. Mount has handwritten ‘19’ at top, and ‘London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, 110 and 108, Regent Street, and 54, Cheapside.’ printed near bottom. Photograph depicts a large ship with sails open on the jibboom, foremast and main. Water is covered with ice, headlands in the distance.