Herbert George Ponting (1870-1935)
CAVERN IN AN ICEBERG, 1910. Green-toned carbon print, flush mounted to board, image/sheet size 740 x 545mm, titled and signed by the photographer in pencil lower margin recto. Framed, frame size 1m4cm x 84cm.

Herbert George Ponting (1870-1935) is best known for documenting Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition, where he acted as the expedition's photographer and cinematographer, creating some of the most famous and memorable images of Scott's ill-fated journey to the South Pole. Ponting's personal account of the expedition was published in The Great White South (1921), where he wrote of discovering this ice cavern. "A fringe of long icicles hung at the entrance of the grotto and passing under these I was in the most wonderful place imaginable. From the outside, the interior appeared quite white and colourless, but, once inside, it was a lovely symphony of blue and green."

Christie's London, Photographs, Wednesday, May 21, 2003, Lot 109