Lot 33: After Stephen Pearce

Rear Admiral Sir James Clark Ross, DCL, FRS, by Alexander Scott engraved beneath the title 'From the Original Portrait placed in the Royal Hospital Greenwich by several Naval Officers & Scientific Men, in honour of his great Discoveries, & Achievements in the Arctic, and the Antarctic Regions. North Magnetic Pole Discovered 1st June 1831 - Highest South Latitude (78o11) attained 23 r d feb 1842.' handcoloured mezzotint 203/4 x 161/4in. (52.7 x 41.3cm.) [ With :] Sir James Clark Ross (1800-1862). Autograph letter signed to H.W. Pickersgill, Whitgift Hall, 15 December 1849, on a misunderstanding about sending a picture to him, and on an engraving which has been 'greatly admired & the likeness pronounced... perfect', 2 pages, 8vo (traces of guards and slight staining to inner margin). Henry William Pickersgill (1782-1875) was a prolific portraitist of politicians, literary figures, scientists and others; he was librarian of the Royal Academy from 1856 until his death. (2).