PONTING (HERBERT) 'The Terra Nova in a Gale', [1910]

PONTING (HERBERT) 'The Terra Nova in a Gale', large green-tinted carbon print, mounted, small losses to surface at lower margin (including to a few letter of blind-stamp), 'x' shaped tear to surface also near lower area, corners slightly bumped with minor loss, 'H.G. Ponting Copyright' blind-stamp lower right, Fine Art Society printed label (with title caption and exhibition number '6' in ink) on verso of mount with pencil note 'Aitkin, Cheltenham', 740 x 585mm., [1910] Footnotes: Terra Nova 'Pitching and tossing in confused sea' (Fine Art Society Exhibition Catalogue, 1913, no. 6), in a photograph taken either on the way South in 1910, or on the homeward journey to New Zealand in 1912. 'The ship is on its side, punching its way into a wave. It dramatically depicts the men working on the deck when they could easily have been swept to their deaths. Ponting would have been risking his own life to take this photograph from the rigging...' (D. Hempleman-Adams, S. Gordon, E. Stuart and A. Donnithorne, The Heart of the Great Alone. Scott, Shackleton and Antarctic Photography, 2009, p.97). The Fine Art Society mounted the first public exhibition of Ponting's photographs at their gallery in New Bond Street, London on 4 December 1913, displaying 146 images, and generating some 680 orders. They were available in four sizes, the present sample being the largest exhibition format. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing