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KristinaGehrmann — Frozen in Time
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Published: 2012-07-06 10:38:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 70862; Favourites: 370; Downloads: 205
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Those three guys have become known as the best preserved ice mummies of the 19th century. Petty Officer John Torrington, Private William Braine and Able Seaman John Hartnell were the first casualties of the doomed Franklin Expedition. They all died in a rather short time span of pneumonia, tuberculosis and lead poisoning and were buried next to each other on Beechey Island in the Canadian Arctic. Their gravestones are still there today.But they did not become famous until they were exhumed by Professor Owen Beattie and his team in 1984.
I've read the account in Beattie's book "Frozen in time" and just had to paint them. How could they have looked when they were alive? All I have as a guide are photographs of the preserved bodies, and until someone exhumes them again there will be only that very limited number of old photos.
So you can't really call my work an "archeological reconstruction", but an "artistic interpretation".
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you always really deserve it!
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Lovely work, Kristina. Whatever you wish to call it; it is still well done forensic studies.
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i took a college course on this subject of the Franklin Expedition and the Inuit and such. The pictures of the mummies were fascinating and i love how you painted them as they would have looked in real life! excellent! 
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This is incredibly fascinating! I love looking at the pictures in comparison to your interpretations. They look amazing! I love this!!
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Holy crap! When I was a kid, I used to have a book about these fellows and their mummies - as disturbing as it may be for a child to own such a thing, I was always more fascinated than traumatized.
It was John Torrington's face that really stuck with me from that book, and it's so amazing now to see him and the others come to life in your rendition. You gave them so much personality and character. I think my favorite is William; he's got such a clever, knowing look to him.
You're very talented, and it's great to see such talent put to something like this. What a great way to honor those brave men.
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Thank you 
I wish I could have been there when they exhumed them in 1984. Just because.
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I can understand why, on both counts.
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Wow great idea to make a portrait of this frozen bodies, I think you have done a really good job, they have personalities. And who knows, maybe they have looked really like this
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That was really fascinating, I love mummies 
You did a really good job at portraying these lads ^^
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Wow, it is great that you included the story as well as the photos. Your artistic interpretation was wonderfully done.
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This is absolutely fascinating! You did a great job. However, I laughed so hard at the "not kawaii desu" comment.
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These are very cool interpretations. What an interesting thing to try. I'd imagine it must have been quite the challenge. I can see the resemblance.
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Thanks
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That is so creepy and disgusting but absolutely fascinating at the same time! Their eyes are till open and in their heads haha...I bet the poor people who opened the coffins got the fright of their lives.
Beautiful art, I think you did a great job at recreating their appearances
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