Photographs of Scenes and Incidents in connection with the happenings to the Weddell Sea Party 1914, 1915, 1916.

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FRANK HURLEY (1885-1962)
Photographs of Scenes and Incidents in connection with the happenings to the Weddell Sea Party 1914, 1915, 1916.
79 carbon prints in various colours including blue and warm brown, each 6 x 8in. (15.3 x 20.3cm.), printed on the 79 cream card leaves, typed titles on labels below each image, preceded by index leaf, title page and list of the Weddell Sea Party, gilt edges, oblong 4°, leaf size 11 5/8 x 14½in. (29.6 x 37.3cm.), mottled end papers

Provenance

Dr Leonard Duncan Albert Hussey (1894-1965), Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition meteorologist and member of the Weddell Sea Party, 1915-16, and thence by descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

An important album of Hurley's prints from the collection of the expedition meteorologist Leonard Hussey. This is the rare de-luxe edition of Hurley's prints, this example apparently an unique variant including prints in various colours printed on the album leaves. There are two otherwise similar albums of 78 and 79 prints in the collection of Dulwich College (for which see J.Piggott (ed.), Shackleton The Antarctic and Endurance, Dulwich, 2000, p.129), another was presented to Shackleton's key sponsor Janet Stancomb Wills (Christie's, 25 Sept. 2002, lot 363) and another is recorded in The Royal Collection ('Five albums are reputed to have been made. Hurley took one in a taxi to Buckingham Palace.' (J.Piggott, op. cit.)

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