S.Y. Endurance trapped in the ice in the Weddell Sea

Marston, exhibition artist and veteran of Shackleton's Nimrod expedition of 1907-09, lost most of his work when the Endurance went down: 'When, after eight months drift, fast locked in the ice of the Weddell Sea, the "Endurance" was finally crushed, October 27, 1915, the whole of my work with the exception of those drawings marked with a star, went down with her. My oil colours were then commandeered to paint the seams of the boat (now our only hope), and in the final escape from the ice, six months later, we doubtless owe some small degree of our safety to those tubes of colour. I was now left with a few sheets of paper, half a dozen water colours and one pencil, which, during that six months drift and the boat journey, were the most treasured possessions.' (G.Marston in the introduction to the exhibition catalogue of his works shown at the Grosvenor Galleries, London, in May 1922).