1850's wood cut engraving of a famous Arctic Expedition, The Grinnell Expedition to Greenland & headed to the North Pole. "Dr. Kane And His Comrades Abandoning The Advance" from an illustrated newspaper of the day. 10 1/2" X 14" in original gallery packaging from The American Heritage Galleries. Dr. Kane served on the first Grinnell expedition of 1850 as a doctor, which failed to find Franklin but did find his winter camp, and then organized and led the second expedition, which became one of history’s greatest survival and exploration stories. On the second expedition, the brig depicted here, the Advance, became encased in ice and Kane and his men spent two winters ashore trapped between Greenland and the ice pack. Eventually forced to abandon the Advance, Kane then led his men on a march to Upernavik, from where they were eventually rescued by a relief operation sent to find them.