ir John Franklin, nicknamed “the man who ate his boots” after surviving an earlier Arctic ordeal, looks rather well fed in this photograph taken at the very dawn of commercial photography and just days before he set off, aged 59 and not in the best of health,
SOTHEBY’S Franklin’s farewell photo
Oct 13, 2023
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