Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
HERBERT PONTING | 'THE FREEZING OF THE SEA'
Lot Closed
October 1, 07:14 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
Lot Details
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HERBERT PONTING
1871-1935
'THE FREEZING OF THE SEA'
large-format blue-toned carbon print, the photographer's facsimile signature blindstamp on the image, flush-mounted, with title and number '39' in ink on a Fine Arts Society, London, credit/copyright/reproduction rights label on the reverse, framed, 1911
image: 29⅜ by 23 in. (74.6 by 58.4 cm.)
framed: 41¼ by 34¼ in. (104.8 by 87 cm.)
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Collection of Ralph Lauren
Sotheby's New York, The Ralph Lauren Collection, 11 October 1995, Sale 6750, Lot 34
Private collection
Sotheby's New York, 16 October 2004, Sale 8018, Lot 36
H. J. P. Arnold, Photographer of the World: The Biography of Herbert Ponting (Cranbury, 1971), pl. 61