| Richard Beard Sir John Franklin [British Naval Northwest Passage Expedition 1845-1848] 1845 Daguerreotype 6.2 x 7.6 cm Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge Accession no.: N: 589/1 LL/39195 Three-quarter length portrait of Sir John Franklin, seated and holding a telescope.
Sir John Franklin, Captain, HMS Erebus - there is a single Daguerreotype at Cambridge with a reversed copy of what appears to be the Cambridge image in the collection at Derbyshire Record Office, Matlock, England.
For a detailed discussion on this series of Daguerreotypes:
http://hidden-tracks-book.blogspot.com/2009/06/lost-daguerreotypes.html
http://hidden-tracks-book.blogspot.com/2009/06/more-on-franklin-expedition.html
http://hidden-tracks-book.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-franklin-expedition-daguerreotype.html
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