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HURLEY (FRANK) "A Cavern beneath the Coastal Ice Cliffs", [1911-1914]
7 February 2018, 13:00 GMT
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HURLEY (FRANK)
"A Cavern beneath the Coastal Ice Cliffs", blue-toned carbon print, mounted on board, Fine Art Society label on verso with title and reference number 95 supplied in manuscript, 430 x 580mm., [1911-1914]
Footnotes
A REMARKABLE AND STRIKING IMAGE, taken by Hurley in Adélie Land during Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition. The figure in the centre is Leslie Whetter (1888-1955), surgeon on the expedition. Reproduced in Mawson's Home of the Blizzard, [1915], with the caption "On the frozen sea in a cavern eaten out by the waves under the coastal ice-cliffs."
Provenance: Sir Douglas Mawson, and by descent; private collection.





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