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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D8760/F/LIB/8/5/1
Former ReferenceD3311/86/37
TitlePrint of engraving of "The Arctic Council Planning a Search for Sir John Franklin", painted by Stephen Pearce
Date[c1853]
DescriptionAlong the bottom are pasted autographs cut from letters of George Back, William Parry, Edward Bird, James Clark Ross, Francis Beaufort, Edward Sabine, Baillie Hamilton, John Richardson and Frederick Beechey, with those of John Franklin, James Fitzjames and John Barrow (x2), whose portraits are hanging on the wall above the Council.
The painting depicted an imaginary scene involving the main protagonists in the search for Franklin meeting in 1847 (no such council ever existed and no such meeting ever took place) and was painted by Pearce in 1851; it was engraved by J. Scott and published by Graves in 1853.
Size 81 x 61 cm.
Extent1 outsize print
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorGell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
TermNaval personnel
Navy officers
Sailors

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Barrow; Sir; John (1764-1848); Admiralty Secretary and promoter of Arctic exploration and author
Back; Sir; George (1796-1878); naval officer and explorer
Parry; William Edward (1790-1855); Sir; naval officer and Arctic explorer
Bird; Edward Joseph (1799-1881); naval officer
Ross; Sir; James Clark (1800-1862); naval officer and Polar explorer
Beaufort; Sir; Francis (1774-1857); naval officer and hydrographer
Sabine; Sir; Edward (1788-1883); army officer, scientist, geophysicist
Hamilton; William Alexander Baillie- (1803-1881); Naval Commander
Richardson; Sir; John (1787-1865); physician, naturalist and Arctic explorer
Beechey; Frederick William (1796-1856); naval officer and hydrographer
Franklin; Sir; John (1786-1847); naval officer and Arctic explorer
Fitzjames; James (c 1812-1848); naval officer
Pearce; Stephen (1819-1904); portrait and equestrian painter
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