Ponting. Polar Photographs (2) 1910-11

Ponting (Herbert George) 1871-1935

Midnight in Antarctic Summer 1910.

Blue-toned carbon print with the photographer’s blind stamp ‘H.G. Ponting.’ (lower right), titled and numbered ‘96’ on the Fine Art Society label on the reverse image 530 x 736mm, unframed and unrestored with some surface foxing.

*** "This beautiful study was secured in the summer, after the breakup of the ice in McMurdo Sound. It was made at midnight, by the light of the Midnight Sun, which in these regions is then nearly as high at 12 p.m. as at noon. A part of the icefoot is seen, and in the distance, some stranded icebergs.... Fine Art Society Exhibition Catalogue No.96 "

Together with:- The Freezing of the Sea. [1911] Blue-toned carbon print, unsigned, Fine Art Society label verso titled and numbered ‘39 ‘The Freezing of the Sea’. Image 685 x 580mm, unframed, with a few spots of foxing visible in the sky.

*** "The Freezing of the Sea" depicts a view from Cape Evans towards Cape Barne on Ross Island, taken by Ponting in April 1911. It was No. 39 in the Fine Art Society Exhibition catalogue, the catalogue entry reading "The Polar winter is rapidly falling, and a thin film of new ice covers the sea... ice locks fill the foreground”.

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