View of the Arctic Sea, from the mouth of the Copper Mine River Product:Greetings card East entrance to the cell

East entrance to the cell in the south-west tower of the Tower of London

'The merry Fidler'

This cartoon depicts Lord Derby

Plate 17 from the paper 'Additions to an account of the anatomy of the Squalus maximus

View of the Arctic Sea, from the mouth of the Copper Mine River Product:Greetings card East entrance to the cellThe expedition party reaches the open sea on 20 July 1821, before sailing east in three canoes to chart the unknown coastline. 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