Erecting tents in a blizzard, 1913 / C. Harrisson

ML 1529

fonds

1913

Graphic Materials, Paintings

9648006

1 painting - visible image 20 x 31 cm, in frame 29 x 41 cm - oil on canvas, in bronze wood frame

Charles Harrisson was appointed biologist on Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914 (AAE). Harrisson sketched a number of views of the expedition and the Antarctic landscape. This work documenting members of the AAE on a sledging journey, was amongst a small number completed after returning to Hobart from Antarctica.

Reference:
Library correspondence file

Presented by Charles Harrisson to Douglas Mawson and Paquita (nee Francisca Adriana Delprat) as a wedding gift in March 1914. The work remained in the Mawson family until it was offered for sale by Mawson's granddaughter Paquita Boston in 2019. Reference: Library correspondence file

This painting depicts four men, possibly members of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914 (AAE), and their dogs 'huskies' on the ice in Antarctica setting up camp, with supplies on sledges surrounding them, and two partially constructed tents behind them.

Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Title from vendor's catalogue

Signed and dated bottom right 'C. Harrisson, 1913'