Sale 6284
London
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18 April 2000
Price realised
GBP 881
Estimate
Herbert George Ponting (1871-1935) Captain Oates and some of the Siberian Ponies, in the 'Terra Nova'; Captain Scott writing up his journal at the Winter Quarters Hut, and An Iceberg off Ross Island the first two inscribed as titles and stamped 'HERBERT G. PONTING, F.R.G.S./copyright/PHOTOGRAPH BY HERBERT G. PONTING F.R.G.S./BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. 1910.' and numbered '27' and '28' respectively, the third signed 'H.G. PONTING' and inscribed as title on the mount, and stamped twice (as above) on the reverse carbon prints, brown and blue toned, all with tears, repairs and losses 14.3/8 x 18.3/8in. (36.5 x 46.6cm.) 14½ x 18.1/8in. (36.8 x 46.1cm.) 13 x 17.5/8in. (33.1 x 44.8cm.) and a later print of the Terra Nova at Ross Island (4)
Provenance
Thomas Baker McLeroth, Ponting's executor, and by descent.
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