Commander E. D. Ashe and assistants Product:Canvas View of the south subway

View of the south subway at the west end of Holborn Viaduct

Front view of Moor Hall

In the lower margin there is a description

Inscribed below in ink: "Chelone pulchriceps

in only his second season

Commander E. D. Ashe and assistants Product:Canvas View of the south subwayClear for action'. Photographic plate from The proceedings of the Canadian eclipse party, 1869, by Commander Edward David Ashe (Quebec, 1870). The photograph shows Commander Ashe with three of his assistants. Ashe was director of the Quebec Observatory and Royal Navy commander. He lead an expedition to Iowa to view the solar eclipse on 7 August 1869. Original: ink on paper. 1870