Masterpieces of Australian Photography. Exhibition 24 June - 22 July 1989
Paddington, Josef Lebovic Gallery, 1989. With the Price List loosely inserted. More about Masterpieces of Australian Photography. Exhibition 24 June - 22 July 1989
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Mawson | Delprat. A Selling Exhibition of Rare Antarctic Photographs, Expeditionary Artefacts, Antique Furniture, Curios and Personal Effects from the Collections of Sir Douglas Mawson and G.D. Delprat. 16-27 September 2019, 196 North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia
Adelaide, Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers, September 2019. A selection of 37 items, some rare and important, others unusual or curious, but at all times interesting, and with the guaranteed provenance of Antarctic explorer Sir Douglas Mawson and his father-in-law, Guillaume Daniel Delprat, General Manager of BHP. Highlights include a seventeenth-century... More about Mawson | Delprat. A Selling Exhibition of Rare Antarctic Photographs, Expeditionary Artefacts,...
A collection of 14 stereophotographs from the expedition, mainly taken in the vicinity of the Western Base hut, Queen Mary Land, in early 1912, with some images relating to the voyage south from Hobart, via Macquarie Island
One outstanding image depicts a group of exhausted expeditioners 'resting' on the deck of the 'Aurora' after establishing the Macquarie Island Base. The best were taken in and around 'The Grottoes', the name given to the Western Base hut and its numerous caverns created in the enveloping snow drifts. These... More about A collection of 14 stereophotographs from the expedition, mainly taken in the vicinity of the...
A collection of 29 original stereophotographs from Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909
In 1907 Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth David (1858-1934) was Professor of Geology at the University of Sydney, with a world-wide reputation, when 'Ernest Shackleton invited him to journey south with his expedition and return in the "Nimrod" at the end of the summer.... [In] December 1907 David, with two former... More about A collection of 29 original stereophotographs from Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition,...
'An Ice Capped Islet'
This print comes from the original 1915 Australian exhibition of Hurley photographs; this was a slightly enlarged version of the London exhibition held earlier in the same year. The label of the Fine Art Society, New Bond Street, London is on the verso of this print, with the title (as... More about 'An Ice Capped Islet'
'A Blizzard'
This classic image shows assistant medical officer Leslie Whetter and assistant collector John Close cutting ice for use in the nearby Winter Quarters (visible in the background). This prosaic description captures none of the awesome beauty of the scene. The print comes from the original 1915 Australian exhibition of Hurley... More about 'A Blizzard'
'Antarctic Petrels on the Nest, Cape Hunter'
This photograph was taken at Cape Hunter, 'a rocky promontory on the west shore of Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica ... 15 km west of Cape Denison. It was discovered in 1912 and explored the following year by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Douglas Mawson, who named it for John G. Hunter... More about 'Antarctic Petrels on the Nest, Cape Hunter'
Christmas Dinner on board the SY 'Discovery', 1930
Provenance: Sir Douglas Mawson; by descent. More about Christmas Dinner on board the SY 'Discovery', 1930
Three expeditioners with 'masks of ice'. A vintage gelatin silver photograph (207 × 156 mm), from the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
The image shows three unidentified members of the expedition inside the Winter Quarters, each with his snow hood encrusted with ice. Mawson wrote of this phenomenon: 'In thick drifts, one's face inside the funnel of the burberry helmet became rapidly packed with snow, which, by the warmth of the skin... More about Three expeditioners with 'masks of ice'. A vintage gelatin silver photograph (207 × 156 mm),...
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