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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2.2002.572
People
John L. Dunmore, American (1823 - 1892)
George P. Critcherson, American (Dorchester, MA 1833 - 1902 Somerville, MA)
Author: William Bradford, American (Fairhaven, MA 1823 - 1892 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled ("The Steamer Panther forcing her way through the hummocky ice")
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: William Bradford, The Arctic regions, illustrated with photographs taken on an art expedition to Greenland (London, 1873), plate 93
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
July 25, 1869
Places
Creation Place: North America, Greenland
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/159101

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
image: 16.4 x 23.2 cm (6 7/16 x 9 1/8 in.)
mount: 32.6 x 40.3 cm (12 13/16 x 15 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: recto, b.l. corner, in graphite: The Steamer Panther forcing her way
    through the hummocky ice and heavy ice [this may be a mistranscription of an earlier graphite inscription reading "heavy pack"]
    on the 25 of July 1869

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Transferred from Widener Library
Accession Year
2011
Object Number
2.2002.572
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Commentary
Here we were surrounded by the wildest Scene possible to conceive. The largest Icebergs and heavy Hummock Ice seemed as if they enticed us amongst them to destroy us. While fast to one of the Icebergs a large Mass fell off, only Two Hundred Feet from our Stern, causing such a commotion in the Water that our Vessel rubbed her sides against the Iceberg in a very dangerous manner. We cast off and steamed to what we though a more safe Berg, and experienced while there a heavy Snowstorm. Plate 93 in William Bradford, The Arctic regions, illustrated with photographs taken on an art expedition to Greenland (London, 1873).

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