M0000961: Portrait of Sir John Franklin (1786-1847)

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Sir John Franklin.

Portrait of Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer. The item was part of a polar exhibition held in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum's central hall in July 1930.

06 August 1930

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.