Since I have been interested in paintings from the Ross Antarctic Expedition lately, how about this painting done by James Ross himself? It’s much more of a suggestive rather than detailed piece, but I think it has a very somber mood to it that would have been appropriate for the occasion of reaching “Furthest South.”
Ooh Captain Sir James Clark Ross: A Fan Fiction c.1849
Technically I finished this last night so I’m calling it my bingo fill for @theterrorbingo square “Magical Realism,” giving me a bingo at literally (after) the last possible moment. Voila!
My eternal gratitude to @frederickdesvoeux for watching Pride & Prejudice (2005) and giving me the initial idea for this insanity. This depiction of Sir James Clark Ross is based – with my eternal apologies – on Henry William Pickersgill’s c.1847-1848 portrait, now in the collection of the Scott Polar Research Institute. Credit to the overall design of this goes, of course, to the beautiful Hark! A Vagrant comic “Ooh Mister Darcy.”
“I was limited to 12 lines to speak of his services. It was hardly possible to say the thousandth part of what I should have like to have said of one I so truly loved.“
–James Clark Ross, writing to Eleanor Franklin Gell about Francis Crozier, 1855
