'Manner of making a resting place on a winter night' Size:XS: 20 x 15cm LONDON & NEW-YORK

LONDON & NEW-YORK

Interior of the chapel at Emanuel Hospital almshouses

Interior of the Hunterian Museum

View of the London Orphan Asylum

At the top is a group of hafted weapons and shields and on both sides several plate chanfrons for the protection of horses faces and heads

'Manner of making a resting place on a winter night' Size:XS: 20 x 15cm LONDON & NEW-YORKExpedition members setting up camp in a forest clearing during their first winter, March 15th 1820. John Franklin's expedition of 1819 22 travelled via the Coppermine River to map the Canadian Arctic coast, as part of efforts to find the fabled North West Passage. Illustration from Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, by John Franklin (London, 1823). Original: aquatint. 1823