Lot 200
200
After Herbert George Ponting and Henry Robertson 'Birdie' Bowers
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After Herbert George Ponting and Henry Robertson 'Birdie' Bowers

After Herbert George Ponting and Henry Robertson 'Birdie' Bowers

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After Herbert George Ponting and Henry Robertson 'Birdie' Bowers
'The Great White South': a set of 25 glass lantern slides from Ponting's illustrated lecture on the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13, including the opening title and 5 captioned images (cracks, damages and losses)
2 1/8 x 3¼in. (5.3 x 8.2cm.) (25)
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Lot Essay

As well as prints of Ponting's own photographs, the images include some evidently printed directly from Ponting's negatives and some printed from photographs of Ponting's work pinned on a hut(?) wall. The images include a photograph of a picture created by the Sphere newspaper in 1913 as a memorial to Captain Scott and his expedition (for which see M. Jones, The Last Great Quest: Captain Scott's Antarctic Sacrifice, Oxford University Press, 2003).

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