Death in the Ice: Part 1
I've been up to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich to see this summer's big Franklin Expedition exhibition, Death in the Ice . They don't let you take photos in the exhibition, which gives me the excuse to illustrate th is review with scenes from a painting I made in 2013 , on a door in Bom – Bane's restaurant , Brighton. If you go, I recommend calling in first at the nearby chapel in the Old Royal Naval College , to see the Franklin Memorial . It's a powerful image of high hopes , on the left , crushed by the Arctic Ice, on the right. The memorial is also the t om b of one of the only tw o men of the expedition to brought back to Britain ( the other is in Edinburgh ). From 2011 is otope analysis of his teeth, he's thought to be Harry Goodsir, the brilliant young naturalist who served as Assistant Sur geon on HMS Erebus. His skull also matches the daguerreotype of Good sir taken on board Erebus before the expedi...