Jul 14, 2021
These stunning watercolors recently came across our desk, and we just had to share them.
They are bound into our copy of Elisha Kane's "The US Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin," published in 1854, which chronicles the First Grinnell Expedition to determine the fate of Franklin's journey into the Northwest Passage in 1845.
Both of Franklin's ships became icebound, and none aboard survived. The shipwrecks were found in 2014 and 2016.