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Lot 139*

PONTING (HERBERT GEORGE)
"Dog Team Resting by an Iceberg", [1911]

7 February 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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PONTING (HERBERT GEORGE)

"Dog Team Resting by an Iceberg", black toned carbon print, on card, photographer's blind-stamped signature lower right, labels on verso, mounted, framed and glazed, image 735 x 533mm., [1911]

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A MAGNIFICENT VIEW, PRINTED IN THE LARGEST FORMAT ISSUED, of a sledge team resting beneath the Barne Glacier, which slopes down from Mount Erebus towards the west coast of Ross Island, taken by Ponting in Spring 1911. In The Great White Ponting recorded his thoughts on facing the glacier, "The prospect that opened out was of arresting grandeur... It was not so much the austere beauty of the scene that so dominated me, as its utter desolation, and its intense and wholly indescribable loneliness. I stood awhile beneath the shivering stars, with every sense alert, striving to detect some sound; but the stillness about me was profound".

Fine Art Society Exhibition catalogue, no.80. The. F.A.S. made available the Ponting photographs in four sizes, the current example being the largest format, originally available at £2.2s.0d. (the smallest at 15 inches was sold at 10s.6d.).

Provenance: Fine Art Society printed label (title and number added in later hand); Robertson & Moffat label with the details added in ink "Photograph (Scott Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913. Dog Team)... by Herbert G. Ponting, F.R.G.S". An exhibition of Ponting's Antarctic photographs was held in the Robert & Moffat's showrooms in Perth, Western Australia in November 1914.

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