"The Arctic Council: An Historical Picture painted by Stephen Pearce, Esq,: The Descriptive Key " by W.R. O'Byrne (3 copies) The members of the so-called "Arctic Council" were identified by a key to a diagram of the painting (on the frontispiece), linking the 13 individuals to potted biographies of their careers from page 8 onwards. There is a brief outline of the history of the exploration of the North West Passage on pages 4-8. Published by Henry Graves and Company, London, 32 pages. 1851