PONTING (HERBERT GEORGE)


"The Terra Nova at the Ice-Foot, Cape Evans", large grey-blue toned carbon print with Ponting's blindstamp signature lower right, mounted on card, Fine Art Society label (with caption in ink), image 750 x 580mm., [January, 1911]
|One of the most celebrated of all the images taken during Captain Scott's last expedition, taken by Ponting on 16 January 1911. It is reproduced at p.72 in Great White South (1921).Fine Art Society Exhibition, catalogue no.24. 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.).