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''Man Proposes, God Disposes'' is an 1864 oil-on-canvas painting by Edwin Landseer. The work was inspired by the search for Franklin's lost expedition which disappeared in the Arctic after 1845. The painting is in the collection of Royal Holloway, University of London. ==Background== The painting depicts an imagined Arctic scene in the aftermath of Sir John Franklin's expedition in 1845 to explore the Northwest Passage. The 134 men of Franklin's exhibition left Greenhithe in May 1845 on two steam-powered ironclad icebreakers, HMS ''Erebus'' and HMS ''Terror''. After 5 left the ship, the remaining 129 men were last seen by a whaling vessel in Lancaster Sound in July 1845 but then disappeared without trace into the ice. The expedition was well-provisioned for a voyage of several years, but eventually search parties were sent out as time passed and there were no further sightings. In 1854, Inuit recounted tales of sightings in 1850 to Captain John Rae of the Hudson's Bay Company, and he found some dead bodies on King William Island. Rae also reported suspicions of cannibalism among the last survivors. In 1859, Francis Leopold McClintock published ''The Voyage of the ''Fox'' in the Arctic Seas'', an account of his voyage on the ''Fox'' in search of Franklin from 1857 to 1859, and his discovery of the remains of two crew from ''Erebus'' on King William Island earlier in 1859, together with the ship's boat and other detritus. The painting may also have been inspired by Caspar David Friedrich's 1824 painting ''The Sea of Ice'', and Frederic Edwin Church's ''The Icebergs'', which was first exhibited in New York in 1861 and shown in London in 1863. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Man Proposes, God Disposes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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