illuminator ⚓️Franklin Expeditionさんのイラストまとめ

Things to see in Greenwich from an 1895 guidebook.

Disraeli and Britannia cosplaying Millais’ The North-West Passage.

As compared to the original Boat Place sketch from Harper's Weekly

Discovery of the Boat Place, 1859.
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A "Crossing the Line" ceremony.
Harper's Weekly, 1875

Happy New Years Eve

Private collection — so I thought we'd never get to see good imagery of this painting. But now Christie's has it at auction in 3 days. Starting bid £40k.

Romantic poet Eleanor Anne Porden.
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Faces upon the discovery of the Boat Place.

Harper's Weekly, October 29th 1859.
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Most of what we think of as the 'Inuit testimony' comes through her. Chuck Hall wrote it down but she translated, it all passed through her before hitting the page.

Her grave in Connecticut is easily the #1 Franklin Expedition history site inside the USA. She died at 38. https://t.co/NwpnJO08Dd

@thekroog 1. The big one: Illustrated London News, Oct 15 1859.
2. Illustrated Times, that same day.
3. A common knockoff.
4. A French knockoff.

Note that unlike the current Greenwich photos, the original 1859 dip circle still had both eyepieces intact and a bubble level on top.

New relics seen tonight. Strange intricate Whampoa plates that must be new finds from 2019, a glass bottle, a plate with a 4(?) scratched on the bottom – and the sharpest shot yet of the double-striped fabric fragment. @TerrorKnits