Lot Description
George Murray Levick (1876-1956)
British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913
a collection of approximately 74 glass negatives and 57 lantern plate glass slides of photographs taken with the Northern Party, showing members of the Northern Party, ice formations, landscapes, geological and glaciological observations, and penguins, skuas and seals
the negatives 3¼ x 4¼in. (8.3 x 10.7cm.) and larger
the slides 3¼ x 3¼in. (8.3 x 8.3cm.)
with an electrotype block (an image of the Terra Nova), 3½ x 4½in. (8.9 x 11.4cm.)
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Provenance
George Murray Levick (1876-1956), and thence by descent.
Anon. sale, Christie's, 18 April 2000, lot 188 (part).
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Lot Notes
Levick's photographs illustrated Scott's Last Expedition and Levick's paper on the 'Natural History of the Adélie Penguin' (British Antarctic Expedition, 1910, Natural History Report, Zoology, I, no.2, pp.55-84).
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