Photograph on card
Category
Photographs
Date
1875 - 1877
Materials
Cloth, Leather, Paper, Photographic paper, Rexine
Collection
Hughenden, Buckinghamshire
NT 428862.50
Summary
Photograph NO. 45. LAT. 79° 8’ N. OFF THE WATERCOURSE, LOOKING TO THE SOUTH-WESTWARD. CAPE HAWKES IN THE DISTANCE. FORENOON, 17TH AUG. 1875. Black and white albumin photograph mounted on card. Mount has handwritten ‘45’ at top, and ‘London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, 110 and 108, Regent Street, and 54, Cheapside.’ printed near bottom. Large headland in background with ice and water in foreground with a ‘cliff; of ice over the rubble-ice-covered water. Rope can be seen jutting out from left-hand side of photograph, tethered to the ice in the centre of the photograph.