Dr. Wilson

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HERBERT GEORGE PONTING
Dr. Wilson
Carbon print. Circa 1910-12. Blindstamp credit and copyright in the margin; numbered 143 in pencil on the Fine Art Society paper label affixed to the reverse of the mount.
18 x 12 in. (45.8 x 30.5 cm.)

Literature

See: Ponting Great White South, pp. 296 and 302.

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Lot Essay

Dr. Edward Adrian Wilson was the Chief of the Scientific Staff of the South Pole Expedition. He was a medical doctor as well as a well-known naturalist and one of the most respected Polar zoologists of his day. Before Scott died he wrote of him 'He died, as he lived, a brave, true man - the best of comrades and the staunchest of friends'.

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