'In 1823/24, the German artist Caspar David Friedrich painted Arctic Shipwreck [sic], popularly known as The Wreck of Hope. Architectural iceforms lurch forward and upward in a stomach-churning scene; the wrecked hull of a ship is carried along with the great ice slabs. This picture typifies imagery relating to the Arctic at that time, of a landscape of monumental forces and allegories. For thise viewers suitably primed through texts, paintings such as Friedrich's Arctic Shipwreck could induce a powerful effect on viewers. It is within these imagined landscapes that characters such as James Clark Ross were placed in the imaginations of readers and viewers, at the time when Ross participated in some of the most adventurous and well-reported attempts on the Northwest Passage.' (111-112)