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HURLEY (FRANK) "An Antarctic Mushroom", [1913]
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HURLEY (FRANK)
"An Antarctic Mushroom", blue-toned carbon print, mounted on board, Fine Art Society label on verso with title and reference number 42 supplied in manuscript, 400 x 550mm., [1913]
Footnotes
Hurley's photograph of this remarkable phenomenon was reproduced in The Home of the Blizzard with the caption "An ice mushroom amongst the Mackellar Islets". The formation, apparently common along the Adelie Land Coast, is built up of frozen spray. Mawson discovered the Mackellar Islands and named them after a patron of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition.
Provenance: Sir Douglas Mawson, and by descent; private collection.





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