Captain Scott, British polar explorer, on the 'Terra Nova' Size:XS: 40 x 30cm View of the Sessions House

View of the Sessions House

In the centre foreground are a group of three men with a dog and further to the right a gentleman with a black servant-boy or attendant

in his fireman's helmet

' The plate is inscribed: 'F P Nodder delin

Captain Scott, British polar explorer, on the 'Terra Nova' Size:XS: 40 x 30cm View of the Sessions HouseCaptain Scott (1868 1912) on the 'Terra Nova', c1900s c1910s (1936). It was during the Terra Nova Expedition (1910 1913) that Scott and four companions reached the South Pole, only to find that the Norwegian expedition under Amundsen had beaten them to their objective by a month. Delayed on their return by blizzards and running out of supplies, Scott and his team died at the end of March. Their bodies and diaries were found eight months later. From