The images, taken before Franklin’s doomed expedition to the Arctic in 1845, are now among the most expensive daguerreotypes ever sold at auction.
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. On Thursday, a set of photographs depicting Franklin and his fellow senior officers taken in May 1845, just three days before they set sail, sold at a Sotheby’s auction in London for £444,500 .
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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