Paintings and Drawings Gallery

Available as Framed Prints, Photos, Wall Art and Gift Items

The Scott Polar Research Institute holds a unique art collection, with works of polar artists providing a fascinating view of early polar expeditions.

Choose from 34 pictures in our Paintings and Drawings collection for your Wall Art or Photo Gift. Popular choices include Framed Prints, Canvas Prints, Posters and Jigsaw Puzzles. All professionally made for quick delivery.

Categories
Scottish National Antarctic Expedition
British Expedition to Graham Land
British Arctic Expedition 1875-76
British National Antarctic Expedition
Paintings and Drawings
> Artist: Samuel Gurney Cresswell
> Artists: Edward Wilson
> Artist: George Marston
British Graham Land Expedition 1934-37
British Arctic Air Route Expedition
Antarctic Relief Expeditions 1902-04
British Naval Northwest Passage
British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
Images Dated

Looking east from Lookout Point, men and penguins, Elephant Island, 1916

Artist: Samuel Gurney Cresswell
Selection of 8 items — **Artist: Samuel Gurney Cresswell**
Selection of 8 items

Artists: Edward Wilson
Selection of 20 items — **Artists: Edward Wilson**
Selection of 20 items

Artist: George Marston
Selection of 4 items — **Artist: George Marston**
Selection of 4 items

The Brig Jane and Cutter Beaufoy, on 20th February 1823, bearing up in Latitude 74.15

Discovery in winter quarters, McMurdo Sound looking north

Iridescent clouds, looking north from the Ramp on Cape Evans, 9 August 1911

Critical position of HMS Investigator on the north-coast of Baring Island, August

Sledge-party leaving HMS Investigator in Mercy Bay, under command of Lieutenant Gurney

HMS Investigator in the pack, October 8th 1850

Featured Paintings and Drawings Print

HMS Terror. Arctic Expedition 1836-37

HMS Terror, nine months in the Ice of Frozen-Strait, under the command of Captain, now Rear Admiral Sir George Back, April, 1836-37. Photograph from a painting by E.W.Cooke. Arctic Expedition 1836-37

Ice, Sailing Ship, Sea Ice, Ships, Snow

First discovery of land by HMS Investigator, September 6th 1850

Camp on the breaking pack ice, Weddell Sea, 1915

Paraselena. McMurdo Sound, 10.30am, 20 June 1911

HMS Investigator running through a narrow channel in a snow storm

Look out from a camp on a large ice floe, Weddell Sea

Looking N.W. Castle Rock below Mount Erebus, 3 August 1903, 2pm

Featured Paintings and Drawings Print

Paraselena. McMurdo Sound, 10.30am, 20 June 1911

Medium: watercolour. Artist: E.A.Wilson (1872-1912). Expedition: British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13 (Terra Nova). Paraselene, a moonlike optical illusion caused by moonlight passing through ice crystals in the upper atmosphere

Colour, Meteorology, Painting, Seals, Watercolour

Paraselena 15 January 1911. 9.30pm Cape Evans McMurdo Sound

Sailing towards Elephant Island through open pack ice, Weddell Sea

Cape Evans. Looking North, 8 August 1911. 3 p.m

Hut Point from the top of Observation Hill, January 1911. 5.30pm

Looking north in McMurdo Sound. Frost smoke. 16 April 1911

Mount Longstaff. 13000 ft. Farthest South of all, 1902

Mount Discovery, with open leads in new ice, 26 March 1911. 7pm

Featured Paintings and Drawings Print

Paraselena 15 January 1911. 9.30pm Cape Evans McMurdo Sound

Colour, Meteorology, Painting, Watercolour

Looking north at noon from South Bay Screen, 3 June 1911