Sir John Franklin’s doomed expedition to the Arctic captivated the Victorian public with its mysterious disappearance, fruitless rescue missions and gory tales of cannibalism.
Now, a set of photographs depicting Franklin and his fellow senior officers taken in May 1845, just three days before they set sail, is going on sale at a Sotheby’s auction in London on September 21, where it is expected to fetch up to £200,000 .
But after two years without contact from the expedition, Lady Franklin pushed the Admiralty in London to send a search party. They waited another year, given the expedition’s amount of supplies, before launching a search effort and offering the equivalent of £2 million in today’s money as a reward. “These are the daguerreotypes from which the engravings that were shown in the Illustrated London News in 1851 were made from,” Bierman said.
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