Erebus and Terror in the Ice 1866 Metal Print
by Hakon Soreide
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Erebus and Terror in the Ice 1866 metal print by Hakon Soreide. Bring your artwork to life with the stylish lines and added depth of a metal print. Your image gets printed directly onto a sheet of 1/16" thick aluminum. The aluminum sheet is offset from the wall by a 3/4" thick wooden frame which is attached to the back. The high gloss of the aluminum sheet complements the rich colors of any image to produce stunning results.
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A new addition to images I've posted on Fine Art that I have not created myself. This is a scan of a steel engraved illustration plate from the... more
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Artist's Description
A new addition to images I've posted on Fine Art that I have not created myself. This is a scan of a steel engraved illustration plate from the highly illustrated 1866 two-volume travelogue "All Round the World". Engraved by E.Grandsire, the image depicts a foreground of auks and walruses amidst icebergs, with the distant near-silhouettes of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, the two ships used by the arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin, on their unsuccessful quest to find the North-West Passage that ended with the tragic deaths of everyone on board. HMS Erebus was finally found only in September 2014, after more than 150 years of searching. Though poorly prepared and thus perhaps doomed to fail, Franklin has since been hailed as a great hero for his attempted expedition, unlike John Rae, surveyor of great parts of Canada, who got accounts of the expedition's fate from the Inuit he met along the northern coast. The mere suggestion that the crew of the lost expedition had resorted to canniba...
About Hakon Soreide
Born in Norway in 1974, and discovering I knew how to paint in 1999, my work spans a wide variety of styles and media, all the way from traditional oils, pencil drawings and encaustics to digital paintings, 3D renderings and computer generated imagery, with styles ranging from the completely abstract to the sensually figurative.
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Irina Sztukowski
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