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Lot 138*

PONTING (HERBERT GEORGE)
"The Terra Nova at the Ice Foot, Cape Evans", [1911]

7 February 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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PONTING (HERBERT GEORGE)

"The Terra Nova at the Ice Foot, Cape Evans", carbon print, signed "H.G. Ponting" lower left, mounted on board, image to view 445 x 305mm., [1911]

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The Terra Nova at the ice foot, as close to the hut as possible to enable Scott's team to unload stores. "There is a remarkable stillness about this image... It would have been relatively warm and at this time of year Ponting would have been able to use the time to take picturesque photographs. The gentle curve of the icicles mirrors the shape of the ship" (David Hempleman-Adams, The Heart of the Great Alone. Scott, Shackleton and Antarctic Photography, 2009). Fine Art Society Exhibition catalogue, no.27.

Provenance: Estate of A.C. Brustad, who aquired this work in 1923 when working for a whaling company in the Antarctic (provenance note on verso of frame). Brustad participated in Richard Byrd's first Antarctic expedition, as a crew member on board the City of New York when it sailed from Dunedin to the Bay of Whales in February 1930 to embark the Winter Party (see Byrd, Little America, 1930, Brustad featuring in crew list).

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