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Lot 147

HURLEY (FRANK)
"Snow Petrel on the nest, Cape Denison", [1911-1914]

7 February 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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HURLEY (FRANK)

"Snow Petrel on the nest, Cape Denison", gelatin silver print, mounted on board, Fine Art Society label on verso with title and reference number 85 supplied in manuscript, lower right corner neatly repaired, 330 x 450mm., [1911-1914]

Footnotes

Hurley commented on trying to photograph snow petrels, "These beautiful birds allowed me to approach within a few yards... and secure a photograph. [But] my camera is a bugbear and using it is a nightmare. Every time I have to set the shutter, I have to take a number of tiny screws from the front and bend the mechanism into shape - and with frostbitten fingers!" (quoted by Robert Macfarlane in Sydney Morning Herald, 2 November 2011).

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