Skip to main content
Become a member
Donate
Shop
Venue hire
Search
Royal Museums Greenwich
Main navigation
Menu
Royal Museums Greenwich
Search
Close
Plan your visit
Back
Plan your visit
Tickets and prices
Getting here
Accessibility
Family visits
Group visits
School visits
Cutty Sark
Cutty Sark
Open daily 10am - 6pm
Last entry 5.15pm
Adult: £22 | Child: £11
Members go free
Free
National Maritime Museum
National Maritime Museum
Open daily 10am-5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Free entry
Booking recommended
Free
Queen's House
Queen's House
Open daily 10am - 5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Free entry
Booking recommended
Royal Observatory
Royal Observatory
Open daily 10am-7.45pm
Last entry 7pm
Adult: £24 | Child: £12
Members go free
What's on
Back
What's on
Planetarium shows
Exhibitions
For families
Member events
Talks and tours
National Maritime Museum
Events and festivals
Rhythm!
Go with the flow at the National Maritime Museum's vibrant dance festival, inspired by the ocean and movement
Cutty Sark
Experiences
Cutty Sark Rig Climb
Experience life at sea and climb the rigging of one of London's true icons
National Maritime Museum
Events and festivals
Ocean Songs
Live music at the National Maritime Museum celebrating our ocean planet, its mythology, natural wonders and as-yet-undiscovered depths
Stories
Back
Stories
Maritime history
Space and astronomy
Art and culture
The ocean
Time
Royal history
Who was John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal?
Meet the man tasked with mapping the night sky from Greenwich, and discover how a feud with Isaac Newton shaped the early history of the Royal Observatory
Blurring boundaries: the art of Maisie Broadhead
Past or present, photographs or paintings? Artist Maisie Maud Broadhead challenges the viewer’s perceptions in two works now on display in the Queen’s House
Where paths cross: a history of migration told through museum objects
From maps and mementos to art and commemoration, discover surprising migration stories found in the National Maritime Museum's collection
Collections
Back
Collections
Conservation
Research
Donating items to our collection
Collections Online
Search our online database and explore our objects, paintings, archives and library collections from home
The Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre
Come behind the scenes at our state-of-the-art conservation studio
Caird Library
Visit the world's largest maritime library and archive collection at the National Maritime Museum
Learn
Back
Learn
School trips and workshops
Self-guided school visits
Online resources and activities
Booking an on-site schools session
Booking a digital schools session
Young people and youth groups
Support us
Back
Support us
Become a member
Donate
Corporate partnerships
Become a patron
Leave a legacy
Commemoration and celebration
Our sites
Cutty Sark
National Maritime Museum
Queen's House
Royal Observatory
Become a member
Donate
Shop
Venue hire
Search
Beta
Back to All Results
Explore our Collection
Objects
Library
Archive
Search our collection
Filters…
Search
Item Category
Select…
Item Category
Item Category
Historic Photographs
Historic Photographs
Show all
'Unknown 64' Collection
Admiralty 10 Collection
Admiralty AD Negative Collection
Bedford Lemere photographs
Francis Frith & Co
Gibson's of Scilly
Henley Collection
H Oliver Hill Collection
Inglefield Negative Collection
Klein Collection
Michael Graham-Stewart collection
North East and East
Online only
Recent acquisitions
Robbins Collection
Smiths, Suitall Ltd Collection
South East and East Anglia
South West
Apply Filter
Apply Filter
Type
Select…
Type
Type
ceremonial artifact: flag, sledge
Copper Sheathing
Despatch balloon message
Despatch balloon messages
documentary artifact: despatch, balloon
documentary artifact: despatch, balloon(2 despatches)
documentary artifact: despatch, balloon(2 framed despatches?)
documentary artifact: playbill
Drawing
Figurehead
Glass plate negative
land transport accessory: handle, whip
Playbill
Polar medal
Print
relic, ship: timber
Sledge flag
Tile
Timber
water transport: research/exploration vessel: discovery vessel
water transport accessory: figurehead(head)
water transport accessory: sheathing, copper(part)
Whip handle
Apply Filter
Materials
Select…
Materials
Materials
chromolithograph
crayon, black
earthenware
felt
glass
graphite
graphite & chalk, white
hand sewn
hardboard
horn
ivory
lithograph
lithograph, coloured
lithograph, tinted
mahogany
metal
metal: copper
paper
silk
silver
wash, brown
watercolour
Wet collodion negative
wood
wood: elm ?
Apply Filter
Display Location
Select…
Display Location
Display Location
Display - Polar Worlds Gallery
Not on display
Apply Filter
Creator
Select…
Creator
Creator
Blakey, W.
Briant, H.
E. Gambart & Co
Franklin, Jane
Inglefield, Edward Augustus
Macdougall, G. F.
May, Walter William
Melville Island Press
Needham, Jonathan
Unknown
Wyon, Leonard Charles
Apply Filter
Places
Select…
Places
Places
Greenland
Holsteinsborg
possibly Holsteinsbourg (now Sisimiut)
Apply Filter
Events
Select…
Events
Events
Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Belcher, 1852-1854
Apply Filter
Vessels
Select…
Vessels
Vessels
Assistance (1835)
Breadalbane (1843)
Diligence (1814)
Intrepid (1850)
McLellan [British]
McLellan [HMS?]
Phoenix (1832)
Pioneer (1850)
Resolute (purchased 1850)
Talbot (1824)
Apply Filter
Exhibition
Select…
Exhibition
Exhibition
Freeze Frame
Inglefield Expedition
North-West Passage
Apply Filter
People
Select…
People
People
Barrow, John
Belcher, Edward
Dean, William
Fawckner, William Henry
Forder, William
Franklin, Jane
Franklin, John
Greenwich Hospital
Kellett, Henry
McClintock, Francis Leopold
McClure, Robert John Le Mesurier
Pim, Bedford Clapperton Tryvillion
Royal Arctic Theatre
Royal United Service Institution
Apply Filter
Century
Select…
Century
Century
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
10th
11th
12th
13th
14th
15th
16th
17th
18th
19th
Apply Filter
Date Range
Select…
Date Range
Date From
Select...
8
9
1843
1850
1852
1853
1854
1855
1857
1879
Date To
Select...
1800
1843
1850
1852
1853
1854
1855
1857
1879
Apply Filter
Show only:
With images
Applied Filters
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Belcher, 1852-1854
Clear all
showing 53 objects results
Sort by
Relevance
Object title/name
Object title/name (desc)
Finding reference
Finding reference (desc)
This Print Representing the Situation of Her Majesty's ships Resolute & Intrepid as they appeared in the Arctic Sea (where they had been sent in search of Sir John Franklin and his brave companions)... (Print)
This Print Representing the Situation of Her Majesty's ships Resolute & Intrepid as they appeared in the Arctic Sea (where they had been sent in search of Sir John Franklin and his brave companions)... (Print)
Belcher's Franklin Expedition 1852/4. Loss of the McLellan. Drawing for plate 2 of set of 14 lithographs published 1 May 1855 (Drawing)
Belcher's Franklin Expedition 1852/4. Sledge party returning through water in the month of July. Drawing for plate 13 of a set of 14 lithographs published 1 May 1855 (Drawing)
Belcher's Franklin Expedition 1852/4. Sledges in a fresh fair wind, going over hummocky lie. Drawing for plate XI of a set of 14 lithographs published 1 May 1855 (Drawing)
HMS Assistance and Pioneer in Winter Quarters. Returning daylight (Print)
Sledges in a fresh fair wind, going over hummocky ice (Print)
Loss of the Mclellan (Print)
Belcher's Franklin Expedition 1852/4. Division of sledges passing Cape Lady Franklin. Extraordinary masses of ice pressed against the water shore of Bathurst Island. Drawing for plate 10 of set of 14 lithographs published 1 May 1855 (Drawing)
Perilous position of HMS Assistance and Pioneer on the evening of the 12th of October 1853, Disaster Bay (Print)
HMS Assistance in tow of Pioneer passing John Barrow Mount, North of Wellington Channel 1853 (Print)
Division of sledges passing Cape Lady Franklin; extraordinary masses of ice pressed against the north shore of Bathurst Land (Print)
Despatch balloon message
Division of sledges finding and cutting a road through heavy hummocks, in the Queen's Channel (Print)
The figurehead of a polar bear from the exploration ship HMS Resolute (1850) (Figurehead)
Division of sledges finding and cutting a road through heavy hummocks, in the Queen's Channel (Print)
Block of H.M.S. 'Resolute' (Timber)
Despatch balloon message
Playbill
Franklin relics bought by Dr Rae (Print)
Taming of the Shrew (Playbill)
Unidentified elderly Inuit woman (Glass plate negative)
Two Inuit women with baby (Glass plate negative)
Bridge across river (Glass plate negative)
First
Prev
Current page
1
Page
2
Page
3
Next
Last
Loading filters
Royal Museums Greenwich
Close
Search
Want to search our collection? Search here.
Back To Top