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on which Nelson was a crewmember. One of the ship's guns is seen firing in an attempt to scare off the bear. It omits the presence of Nelson's comrade, showing him confidently standing up to the bear alone.
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misfired and he reversed it to try and beat the bear off with the butt end. His life was likely saved when the ice split in two separating him from the animal. In the background is the
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Beasts of Burden: Biopolitics, Labor, and Animal Life in British Romanticism
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White Horizon: The Arctic in the Nineteenth-Century British Imagination
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of Lord Horatio Nelson, which McArthur co-authored with
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Richard Westall
Oil on oak panel
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich
London
painting
artist
Richard Westall
Horatio Nelson
midshipman
polar expedition
Northwest Passage
polar bear
musket
bomb vessel
HMS Carcass
John McArthur
engraving
John Landseer
The Life of Lord Nelson
biographies
James Stanier Clarke
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich


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