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    Heroism and Imperialism in the Arctic: Edwin Landseer’s <i>Man Proposes – God Disposes</i> by Ingeborg Høvik

    Published 2008-02-01
    “…Edwin Landseer contributed the painting Man Proposes - God Disposes (Royal Holloway College, Egham), showing two polar bears amongst the remnants of a failed Arctic expedition, to the Royal Academy's annual exhibition of 1864. As contemporary nineteenth-century reviews of this exhibition show, the British public commonly associated Landseer's painting with the lost Arctic expedition of sir John Franklin, who had set out to find the Northwest Passage in 1845. …”
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    Érudition et relations de voyages au siècle des Lumières : le cas des voyageurs britanniques à l’Académie de Lorraine (1697-1736) by Jérémy Filet

    “…By examining the comparative history of the Duchy of Lorraine and the British Isles, we will show that the educational academy of Duke Leopold was considered a popular stop on the Grand Tour and a centre of Local erudition. …”
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