Well, this is my own representation of James Reid, the ice master of the HMS Erebus. The original picture is here. Again the drawing doesn´t have any resemblance with the original, I think that he looks even infantile in my drawing, any trace of his hard facial features, but....
I am enjoying stopping to study the facial features. It gives me a lot of information. Undoubtely this man was a veteran sailor, his clear eyes show experience. This man seems to be a whaling captain. It seems that the Royal Navy normally takes this kind of people for guiding the vessels among the icebergs or ice floes in the northern seas. Whalers have been allways familiarizated with the navigation in arctic seas.
I haven´t found any additional information to put here. Only that in 1854 John Rae obtained from the Inuit a gold watch engraved with his initials. This probably is the only remain of him that will be recovered ever.
I don't think it's that bad actually. ^^ Have you ever drawn Fitzjames or Crozier?
ResponderEliminarHello Noelia!, Thanks and welcome.
ResponderEliminarOF course I´ve tried to do it, at least the drawing of Fitzjames, but I´d want to know more about him reading the book of William Battersby to give more value at the post. However I am going to put it just now, because I don´t think that I can finish it till the end of the summer ans I am very impatient.
About James Reid I know now that he was in fact a rough man, as you can expect from a whaling sailor of the time, but also an intelligent and cheerful man.