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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D8760/F/LIB/8/4/2
Former ReferenceD3311/135
TitlePhotograph of half-length portrait of Lady Mary Simpkinson, sister of Lady Franklin
Date[late 19th cent]
DescriptionPortrait shows her left hand holding her chin, painted possibly in the 1840s, based on her hairstyle; she is identified in pencil on the back in a much later hand as Lady Simpkinson, which she became in October 1845, when her husband Sir John Augustus Francis (Frank) Simpkinson was knighted.
Oval-shaped, with oval frame (made of card, detached).
Size, with frame, 24 x 30 cm, image size 18 x 24 cm.
Extent1 item
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorGell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
FormatPhotographic
TermFranklin Expedition (1845)

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Simpkinson; Lady; Mary (1794-1854); wife of lawyer Sir Francis Simpkinson
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