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Freeze Frame
Fredrik Lassen with a hookah (G4260)
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Glass plate negative
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G04260, Man with a hookah
© National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
About our images
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| Artist/maker: |
Captain Edward Augustus Inglefield
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| Date made: |
1854 |
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Greenland |
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Wet collodion negative |
| Measurements: |
Overall: 162 mm x 212 mm |
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National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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Inglefield Expedition
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Description:
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This is probably Frederik Lassen, the Danish governor of Fiskenæsset. Inglefield described Lassen as ‘an inordinate smoker, but a fine portly man, and full of pleasant good humour, which kept everyone happy around him’.
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