Engraving showing the relics of Sir John Franklin's ill-fated Arctic expedition of 1845, which were found by Francis Leopold McClintock in 1859. The items include a medicine chest, a gun, a dipping needle, a stove, snow goggles, a Vesta-box, a prayer book and some spectacles. In the background are also some Eskimo weapons which McClintock purchased. In 1845 the British Admiralty sent two polar exploration ships, HMS 'Erebus' and HMS 'Terror', to look for the Northwest passage round the nort