Artist: Ken Petts (biography)
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 8" x 7" (195mm x 185mm)
Date: 1980

This is the unique original Gouache painting by Ken Petts.

The Route to Russia: The Terrible Tsar. After surviving the perils of uncharted polar seas and the terrors of the Kremlin and the unpredictable Tsar, Richard Chancellor was beaten by the seas. Here we see his ship being wrecked off the coast of Aberdeen.

Original artwork from Look and Learn no. 959 (26 July 1980).