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Lot 226
  • 226

Ponting, Herbert George.

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • Two photographs: 'Birth of an Iceberg' and 'Cirrus Clouds [over the Barne Glacier]', 1910-1912.
the former a silver print (437 x 609mm.), the latter an orange-toned carbon print (441 x 600mm.), each mounted on board, with a Fine Art Society label on the reverse of the mount titled and numbered '14'(?) and '112' respectively, in ink, also inscribed 'Simpson' in pencil on the reverse, framed and glazed (2)

Literature

'Birth of an Iceberg':  Arnold, H.J.P., 1969, pl.51; 'Cirrus Clouds': Ponting, H.G., The Great White South, 1999 (1921), p.200, as 'Cirrus clouds over the Barne Glacier.'