KW234264 Nelson\'s encounter with a Bear, illustration from \'The Life of Nelson\' by Robert Southey (1774-1843) first published 1813 (engraving) by Westall, Richard (1765-1836) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: In 1773 Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) served as a midshipman in the \'Carcass\' which sailed with the \'Racehorse\' on a Polar expedition to try to find a north-east passage to the Pacific; in the encounter with the bear his musket misfired and he attacked the bear with the butt-end until saved from harm by a rift in the ice;); English, out of copyright.