There was another of these large format exhibition prints in the Phillips sale of March 30, and the blue-toned print of The Midnight Sun at McMurdo Sound, below right, was sold for £7500.
Carbon print of the Terra Nova at Cape Evans
Showing the Terra Nova at Cape Evans, this large, green toned carbon print is an example of the largest format photographs offered by the Fine Art Society in their 1913-14 exhibition of photographs taken by Herbert Ponting on Scott’s last expedition (this one measuring 2ft 6in x 23in – 75 x 58cm) and it sold for £5000 (Grigor Taylor) in the Bonhams Knightsbridge sale.
