Sir James Clark Ross

1 portrait by Augustus Fox

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Sir James Clark Ross

by Augustus Fox, published by T. Fielder, after Henry William Pickersgill
line engraving, published 9 January 1850
15 3/8 in. x 11 7/8 in. (389 mm x 303 mm) plate size; 17 3/8 in. x 13 7/8 in. (440 mm x 354 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D39880

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  • T. Fielder (active 1850), Publisher. Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.
  • Augustus Fox (active circa 1841-1849), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 4 portraits.
  • Henry William Pickersgill (1782-1875), Portrait painter. Artist or producer associated with 111 portraits, Sitter in 7 portraits.

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  • NPG D39881: Sir James Clark Ross (from same plate)

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Current affairs

Cardinal Wiseman, a Catholic priest who had exerted a strong influence on the Oxford movement, is made a Cardinal and leader of the Catholic church in England, thus restoring Roman Catholic hierarchy in England.

Art and science

Death of poet laureate William Wordsworth; his great autobiographical poem The Prelude is published posthumously, famously charting the growth of the poet's mind.
Tennyson's In Memoriam is also published. A poignant record of his grief over the death of his friend Arthur Hallam, the poem also movingly questions the strength of faith in an increasingly scientific age.

International

Up to 50,000 pioneers travel west in wagons on the Oregon trail in the United States, one of the main overland migration routes across the continent. Spanning over half the continent, the trail led 2,170 miles through territories and land which would later become six US states, including Kansas, Wyoming and Oregon, helping the US to implement its goal of Manifest Destiny - building a nation spanning the North American continent.

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Pieter van der Merwe

12 April 2019, 13:53

Sir James Clark Ross
by Augustus Fox, published by T. Fielder, after Henry William Pickersgill
NPG D39880

This is an example, probably one of many, in which it would improve the entry to state (if known and in another broadly public and permanent collection) where the original is: in this case in the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, ref Y:2007/8.

Similarly, the Stephen Wildman oil portrait of the same sitter (exh. S.B.A, 1834), of which you have the derived prints, is in the National Maritime Museum. Its entry on its 1871 version of the Stephen Pearce portrait of him (based on yours on millboard of 1850 and 'The Arctic Council' group portrait) certainly states the prime version is in the NPG. These ethings are never perfect or comprehensive, but a lateral view is always helpful