Herbert G. Ponting, 1871-1935

Magenta-Toned Silver Print, flush-mounted on board, the photographer's blindstamp in the image, with a Fine Art Society label on the reverse of the mount titled and numbered '55' in ink, also inscribed 'Simpson' in pencil on the reverse, framed and glazed,

Ponting, H.G., 1999 (1921), a landscape format version p. 124, as 'The author at work in the dark-room'.

This and the following 13 lots (excluding lot 158) come from the collection of George Clarke Simpson.  Dr. Simpson, of the Indian Weather Bureau at Shimla, was one of the scientific staff on board the Terra Nova, taking charge of the meterological and magnetic work.  Close to the expedition leader Scott, Simpson was put in command of the base camp at Cape Evans when Scott and the polar party left it for the last time in late October 1911.  Simpson never returned to the Antarctic after the expedition.  His three-volume treatise summarising the meterological findings was published in 1919 after many years of painstaking analysis.