The Moloch of Arctic discovery [picture] : the world's sacrifices to a whim of science.
Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand,1838-1894.
[New York? : Puck Magazine,
1882]
Engraved by J. Keppler.
Illustration appearing on p.284-285 of Puck.
Engraving showing explorers labouring with sledges across a crevassed icy landscape against a mountainous background littered with marker crosses of buried sailors and abandoned wrecks of the Franklin, Hall and Kane vessels. The irony of the sketch is heightened by two inset sketches. The first of of a rich man seated before a blazing fire, studying a map of the Arctic, and the second of a grieving wife and child of dead sailor.
Scientific expeditions