View of the Arctic Sea, from the mouth of the Copper Mine River Mannerism undertaken by Jeffry Wyatville in

undertaken by Jeffry Wyatville in the 1820s and 1830s during the reign of George IV

with observations on the structure of the branchial artery'

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resulting in the loss of artist information

View of the Arctic Sea, from the mouth of the Copper Mine River Mannerism undertaken by Jeffry Wyatville inThe 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