Richard Beard
1845
Sir John Franklin
[British Naval Northwest Passage Expedition 1845-1848]

Daguerreotype
6.2 x 7.6 cm
 
Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
Accession no.: N: 589/1
 
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
 
LL/39195
 
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