 Frank Hurley 1907 to 1950sCollectors' List 120 2006 |
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11 The Endurance Midwinter, 1915/1922. Silver gelatin photograph, printed title on backing below, 15.1 x 19.5cm. Minor tear to upper right edge, slight rubbing to surface, old glue stains and paper remnants from original album page verso. L285/#1310 Illustrated with caption in RGS, South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917; The Photographs of Frank Hurley, 2001, p286: "'During the night take flashlight of the ship beset by pressure. This necessitated some 20 flashes, one behind each salient pressure hummock, no less than ten of the flashes being required to satisfactorily illuminate the ship herself. Half blinded after the successive flashes, I lost my bearings amidst hummocks, bumping shins against projecting ice points & stumbling into deep snow drifts. The negative when developed proved satisfactory & well repaid the cold endeavour.' Hurley diary, August 27, 1915." The Endurance was named after the Shackleton family motto "By endurance we conquer." Provenance: From an album of Antarctic photographs presented by Hurley to Archdeacon John Bidwell in 1922. |
$16,500 |
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12 A Midsummer Sunset... ...the "Endurance", Frozen up during Midwinter, 1915/1922. Silver gelatin photograph, title and date "February 1915" printed on backing below, 15.4 x 19.4cm. Slight discolouration to edges, old glue stains and paper remnants from original album page verso. L285/#1308 Illustrated in Alexander, The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Expedition, 1998, p47 and RGS, South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917; The Photographs of Frank Hurley, 2001, p264. Provenance: From an album of Antarctic photographs presented by Hurley to Archdeacon John Bidwell in 1922. |
$9,900 |
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13 Laying to, the Endurance... ...Midwinter, 1915/1922. Silver gelatin photograph, title and date "14 January 1915" printed on backing below, 15.2 x 19.5cm. Old glue stains and paper remnants from original album page verso. L285/#1307 Illustrated in Alexander, The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Expedition, 1998, p32 and captioned in RGS, South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917; The Photographs of Frank Hurley, 2001, p253: "Although Hurley's Green Album indicated this photo was taken before the ship was beset, it endures as a classic portrait of the ship and the ice. Note the slight starboard list in the ship." Provenance: From an album of Antarctic photographs presented by Hurley to Archdeacon John Bidwell in 1922. |
$7,700 |
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14 Captain Frannk Hurley... ...Taking a Cinema at the Bows of "Endurance", 1915/1922. Silver gelatin photograph, printed title on backing below, 20.3 x 15.2cm. Slight discoloration to edges, minor soiling to surface, old glue stains and paper remnants from original album page verso. L285/#1306 Illustrated in Alexander, The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Expedition, 1998, p68 and captioned in RGS, South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917; The Photographs of Frank Hurley, 2001, p287: "Hurley with cinematograph under the bow of the Endurance, September 1, 1915." Provenance: From an album of Antarctic photographs presented by Hurley to Archdeacon John Bidwell in 1922. |
$11,000 |
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15 Ice Flowers on a Lead,... ...Blizzard Ice, Spring, 1915/1922. Silver gelatin photograph, title and date printed on backing below, 15.2 x 19.4cm. Old glue stains and paper remnants from original album page verso. L285/#1305 Illustrated in RGS, South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917; The Photographs of Frank Hurley, 2001, p123 and p265. Provenance: From an album of Antarctic photographs presented by Hurley to Archdeacon John Bidwell in 1922. |
$6,600 |
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16 [Ocean Camp] 1915. Silver gelatin photograph, 12.4 x 18.5cm. Minor handling dents to image. Illustrated with caption in RGS, South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917; The Photographs of Frank Hurley, 2001, p294: "From a series of images from Ocean Camp after it was well established. It is interesting to speculate that these images may have been exposed the same day Hurley abandoned his heavy, whole plate camera, since they range from whole plate to Vest Pocket Kodak negatives." |
$4,400 |
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17 [Panorama of Ocean Camp] 1915. Silver gelatin photograph, 12.4 x 18.5cm. Minor chips to edges. Illustrated with caption in RGS, South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917; The Photographs of Frank Hurley, 2001, p293: "Panorama of Ocean Camp showing its location to the ship, the funnel of which is just visible on the skyline, centre left." |
$4,400 |
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18 [The Endurance... ...was Finally 'Held-up'], 1915. Silver gelatin photograph, 12.4 x 15.2cm. Retouching to centre of image. Illustrated with caption in RGS, South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917; The Photographs of Frank Hurley, 2001, p93 and p254: "'Further progress southward was blocked by impenetrable pack. January 20, 1915. Taken the day after Endurance was finally 'held up' and where she was eventually frozen in,' wrote Frank Hurley in the Green Album." |
$4,400 |
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19 [The End] 1915. Silver gelatin photograph, 36.9 x 26.8cm. Repaired tears and scratches to image. Illustrated with caption in RGS, South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917; The Photographs of Frank Hurley, 2001, p167 and p292: "Hurley's best known and most widely reproduced photograph of the wreck. Original whole plate." Also in Millar, From Snowdrift to Shellfire, 1984, p39. |
$8,800 |
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20 [Jedge,... ...Member of Marston's Sledge Team], 1915. Silver gelatin photograph, 7.3 x 7.2cm. Illustrated with caption in RGS, South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917; The Photographs of Frank Hurley, 2001, p144 and p285: "Judge, a member of George Marston's sledge team, took an immediate dislike to his new mattress when it was offered to him in March 1915, but growled when Macklin tried to remove it. Considered a wise and friendly dog, and senior member of the pack …" |
$1,650 |
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