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PONTING (HERBERT GEORGE) "An Iceberg off Cape Royds", [1911] image 1
PONTING (HERBERT GEORGE) "An Iceberg off Cape Royds", [1911] image 2
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PONTING (HERBERT GEORGE)
"An Iceberg off Cape Royds", [1911]

7 February 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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PONTING (HERBERT GEORGE)

"An Iceberg off Cape Royds", large blue toned carbon print, blindstamped signature of the photographer in lower right, mounted, framed and glazed in the original F.A.S. frame, image to view 585 x 735mm., [1911]

Footnotes

"A good illustration of the appearance of a tabular berg newly 'calved' away from the Great Ice Barrier... the berg is about a hundred feet high, and as only about the eighth part is visible above water, there are some seven hundred feet of ice below the surface. In the distance the peaks of the Western Mountains can be seen" (Fine Art Society Exhibition catalogue, no.117)

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. This copy in an original F.A.S. frame, which were also available at various prices "ranging from one guinea downwards".

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