George P. Critcherson, John L. Dunmore, William Bradford
"Castle Berg in Melville Bay over two hundred feet high. The Figure, which is some seventy-five feet from the Base, gives an object to compare with the Berg. The Ice in the foreground is about eighteen inches in thickness."
1869
Albumen silver print from a glass negative
Not on view
From William Bradford’s book The Arctic Regions: Illustrated with Photographs Taken on an Art Expedition to Greenland (1873)
Dunmore and Critcherson created this and other photographs while accompanying American painter William Bradford on one of his many voyages to Greenland. These expeditions were made “solely for the purposes of art,” as Bradford wrote in his 1873 publication, The Arctic Regions.
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