Dear Iain (and/or remainder of 'Lis-maps'?),
After the first attempt earlier this past week, I've at last succeeded
this evening in opening and viewing the image. It seems to me, by its
size and sketchy outline (latter maybe due to artist, scan/dpi, and my
screen) to be an Admiralty chart; indeed, this would be a logical item
to include. Certain members of UKHO probably will read this exchange and
hie themselves off to their archival charts collection . . .
Alternatively/additionally, unless you can track down an art historian's
deeper - and objective - analysis of this particular Millais work, I
suggest you could enquire of Robert K. Headland (SPRI's former
Archivist) -
R. K. Headland
Senior Associate
Scott Polar Research Institute
Lensfield Road
Cambridge CB2 1ER
UK
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Francis
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Subject: Millais' NW Passage map
Francis, someone brought my attention to the large map of N. America in
Millais' famous painting titled The North West Passage housed at the
Tate:
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/millais/rooms/room4.shtm
painted around 1874.
This was just after the return of the American expedition of Capt.
Charles Hall (but without its Captain who died in mysterious
circumstance) in Nov. 1873 and the return of Albert Markham from a
whaling voyage in Sept. of that year. Nares expedition was in the
planning stages and left May 1875. So the Arctic was in the public eye
and in the artist's mind's eye.
Can anyone identify the map on which the one painted would have been
based, or any of the persons or prints
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