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Frank Hurley (1885-1962)
A Turreted Berg, 1913
blue-toned carbon print photograph, 17 x 23in., mounted on card. (Some neatly restored surface damage.) Contemporary oak frame.
'NO GRANDER SIGHT HAVE I EVER WITNESSED AMONG THE WONDERS OF ANTARCTICA' (Hurley. Argonauts of the South [New York, 1925] p.103).
Hurley accompanied Sir Douglas Mawson on his Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-14. He was aboard the Aurora on her way to rescue some of Mawson's men from Knox Land in the Antarctic, when they came upon 'Thousands of mighty bergs...grounded on a vast shoal and our way lay through their midst. No grander sight have I ever witnessed among the wonders of Antarctica. We threaded a way down lanes of vivid blue with shimmering walls of mammoth bergs rising like castles of jade on either side' (Hurley. op. cit.)
LITTERATURE:
D. Mawson, The Home of the Blizzard. London, 1915, II, opposite p.40.
J.Boddington, 1910-1916 Antarctic Photographs Herbert Ponting & Frank Hurley, Melbourne, 1979. p.85 stet.
A Turreted Berg, 1913
blue-toned carbon print photograph, 17 x 23in., mounted on card. (Some neatly restored surface damage.) Contemporary oak frame.
'NO GRANDER SIGHT HAVE I EVER WITNESSED AMONG THE WONDERS OF ANTARCTICA' (Hurley. Argonauts of the South [New York, 1925] p.103).
Hurley accompanied Sir Douglas Mawson on his Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-14. He was aboard the Aurora on her way to rescue some of Mawson's men from Knox Land in the Antarctic, when they came upon 'Thousands of mighty bergs...grounded on a vast shoal and our way lay through their midst. No grander sight have I ever witnessed among the wonders of Antarctica. We threaded a way down lanes of vivid blue with shimmering walls of mammoth bergs rising like castles of jade on either side' (Hurley. op. cit.)
LITTERATURE:
D. Mawson, The Home of the Blizzard. London, 1915, II, opposite p.40.
J.Boddington, 1910-1916 Antarctic Photographs Herbert Ponting & Frank Hurley, Melbourne, 1979. p.85 stet.