Live Auction 2603The National Geographic Collection: The Art of Exploration
HERBERT G. PONTING (1870-1935)
Lot 195

HERBERT G. PONTING (1870-1935)

Charles Wright, Scott's Antarctic Expedition, January 29, 1912

Closed6 December 2012

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HERBERT G. PONTING (1870-1935)
Charles Wright, Scott's Antarctic Expedition, January 29, 1912
gelatin silver print
publication labels, typed credit, date, caption and stamped reproduction limitation on collection label affixed (on the reverse of the mount)
image: 6¾ x 5in. (17.1 x 13.2cm.)
mount: 9 x 7in. (23.3 x 18.2cm.)

Specialist note

Sir Charles Seymour Wright, KCB, OBE, MC (1887-1975) was a Canadian member of Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition to Antarctica in 1910-1913. He served as the expedition's physicist and glaciologist.