An etching of a boat with five passengers on a rough sea; three of them stand and gesture as a white bird with outstretched wings emerges from the waves, right; artist’s proof; signed and dated, lower right Produced during the 1960s and early 1970s, The Lost Party is a series of fifty etchings treating with the Newfoundland sealing disaster of 1914 in which a group of sealers were dropped off on the ice, but never retrieved due to confusion between the two ships’ captains. More than two hundred men perished. Many of Blackwood’s etchings capture the hallucinations of their final hours.

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