ELISHA KENT KANE (1820-1857) After J.B.WANDESFORDE. Portrait of Elisha Kane, titled Dr.Kane at the graves of Sir John Franklin's men. For Subscribers to the New York "Albion." 1858 . New York: printed by R.Dalton for William Young & Co., 1857. Hand-coloured steel engraving (755 x 545mm.: plate area) by D.G.Thompson after Wandesforde. Framed and glazed. A fine engraved portrait of Kane, full-length in sealskins, a telescope in his left hand, standing on the snow-covered shore before the three graves of Franklin's men, a ship (?the brig Advance ) in the background. Kane took part in two of the Franklin-search expeditions. In 1850 he served as chief medical officer under Lieut.E.J.Duhaven, using ships supplied by Henry Grinnell. In 1853 he led the second Grinnel expedition aboard the Advance . Neither expeditions found any trace of Franklin. The second expedition nearly ended in disaster, but, after almost incredible hardships, and an 83-day trek through the frozen wastes, he and the majority of his men were rescued by the expedition led by Lieut. H.Hartstene, who eventually landed them in New York on Oct 11, 1855. Kane's account Arctic Explorations was a best-seller: it 'lay for a decade with the Bible on almost literally every parlor table in America' (DAB). Kane's heart had been weakened by a bout of rheumatic fever when he was a student and it finally gave out in Havana on 16 Feb. 1857 shortly after his 37th birthday. 'The funeral journey was a pageant of national mourning. The body lay in state in New Orleans, Louisville, Columbus, Baltimore, and finally in Independence Hall... processions were organized; poems, editorials, sermons were composed.' (DAB). The present depiction arose from this climate of national mourning: a memorial to the man who came to personify victory in defeat, much as Captain Scott was to do, fifty-odd years later.
ELISHA KENT KANE (1820-1857) After J.B.WANDESFORDE. Portrait of Elisha Kane, titled Dr.Kane at the graves of Sir John Franklin's men. For Subscribers to the New York "Albion." 1858 . New York: printed by R.Dalton for William Young & Co., 1857. Hand-coloured steel engraving (755 x 545mm.: plate area) by D.G.Thompson after Wandesforde. Framed and glazed. A fine engraved portrait of Kane, full-length in sealskins, a telescope in his left hand, standing on the snow-covered shore before the three graves of Franklin's men, a ship (?the brig Advance ) in the background. Kane took part in two of the Franklin-search expeditions. In 1850 he served as chief medical officer under Lieut.E.J.Duhaven, using ships supplied by Henry Grinnell. In 1853 he led the second Grinnel expedition aboard the Advance . Neither expeditions found any trace of Franklin. The second expedition nearly ended in disaster, but, after almost incredible hardships, and an 83-day trek through the frozen wastes, he and the majority of his men were rescued by the expedition led by Lieut. H.Hartstene, who eventually landed them in New York on Oct 11, 1855. Kane's account Arctic Explorations was a best-seller: it 'lay for a decade with the Bible on almost literally every parlor table in America' (DAB). Kane's heart had been weakened by a bout of rheumatic fever when he was a student and it finally gave out in Havana on 16 Feb. 1857 shortly after his 37th birthday. 'The funeral journey was a pageant of national mourning. The body lay in state in New Orleans, Louisville, Columbus, Baltimore, and finally in Independence Hall... processions were organized; poems, editorials, sermons were composed.' (DAB). The present depiction arose from this climate of national mourning: a memorial to the man who came to personify victory in defeat, much as Captain Scott was to do, fifty-odd years later.
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