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<p>Perilous situation of H.M.S.V. Intrepid in Baffins Bay - August 2. 1851. Christie's, September 23, 2004, London
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May, an amateur artist who illustrated numerous Arctic subjects, was mate on HMS Resolute on the Franklin Search Expedition of 1850-51 (for which see note to the preceding lot). The ships had been frozen in the ice from September 1850 and were finally released on 8 August 1851. May's sketches depict the Intrepid in the throes of the thawing ice, a few days before her release.</div>
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43134047" class="extiw" title="d:Q43134047"><span title="British maritime artist">Walter William May</span></a>
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2 August 1851<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1851-08-02T00:00:00Z/11</div>
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