William Hodges was the official artist on Captain CookÂ’s Second Voyage and this small sketch was made during one of the two sweeps towards the South Pole in 1772-73.

It depicts the Resolution under sail in a choppy sea under overcast skies with streams of pack ice floating past. There is a similar sketch in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.

Provenance

Unknown; Christie's, 2006.


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