2-756-340 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'View of the Arctic Sea from the Mouth of the Copper Mine River, Midnight, July 1821', (1946). Tents with British flags on the coast of northern Canada, depicted by a member of John Franklin's Coppermine Expedition of 1819-1822. The long hours of daylight during the Arctic summer made it possible to draw in the middle of the night. Illustration from "Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea" by John Franklin. Published in "British Polar Explorers", by Admiral Sir Edward Evans. [Collins, London, 1946]