Black Dog Studios: Captain Cook set of four prints

Set of four Open Edition Prints £ 40.00
Image Size 13.5 X 19.5 cm

Top left - We stretched to the southward: Adventure with Resolution
Top right - We directed our course into the Channel
13th July 1772 Resolution & Adventure are heading out from Plymouth. The title for this picture came from the Journals of Johann Reinhold Forster who was the principal naturalist aboard the Resolution. The Eddystone light can be seen in the distance.
Bottom left - Reluctant Admiration 14th December 1772 - Resolution and Adventure stopped by an immense field of ice. Man's first intrusion into this virgin, unknown world, Antarctica. In the foreground, a group of Chinstrap Penguins are resting on a
small ice floe.
Bottom right - Much more precious than Gold 9/10th January 1773. Captain James Cook's Resolution and Adventure collecting ice for fresh water between the 9th and 12th January 1773. Resolution's lieutenant Richard Pickersgill remarked -
" We are now much distressed for want of water and keep a good look out for a good opportunity to take on board some loose pieces of ice to melt by which we hope to supply ourselves "

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