THE ROYAL COLLECTION TRUST
The Heart of the Great Alone : Scott, Shackleton and Antarctic Photography
List of Works
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Exhibition catalogue no.*
1.* Herbert Ponting (1870-1935) Herbert Ponting, with cinematographic camera , 1911 Toned silver bromide print: 456 x 333 mm
2. Herbert Ponting Cirrus clouds over the Barne Glacier , 19 December 1911 Carbon print on dyed paper: 434 x 588 mm
3. Herbert Ponting Captain Scott, RN CVO , February 1911 Silver bromide print: 437 x 610 mm
4. Herbert Ponting The hut at Cape Evans , 26 March 1911 Carbon print: 734 x 575 mm
5. Herbert Ponting The Terra Nova in McMurdo Sound , 7 January 1911 Carbon print: 582 x 730 mm
6. Herbert Ponting Tabular iceberg off Cape Royds , 13 February 1911 Carbon print: 584 x 732 mm
7. Herbert Ponting The Castle Berg, with dog sledge , 17 September 1911 Carbon print: 532 x 750 mm
8. Herbert Ponting Vida , 1911 Toned silver bromide print: 380 x 275 mm
9. Herbert Ponting Osman, ‘our best sledge dog’ , 1911 Toned silver bromide print: 380 x 275 mm
10. Herbert Ponting Captain Lawrence Oates and Siberian ponies on board Terra Nova , 1910 Carbon print: 444 x 590 mm
11. Herbert Ponting Petty Officer Evans and Snatcher the pony , October 1911 Toned silver bromide print: 336 x 454 mm
12. Herbert Ponting The Shore Party , January 1911 Silver bromide print: 436 x 619 mm
* The Heart of the Great Alone: Scott, Shackleton and Antarctic Photography , David Hempleman-Adams, Sophie Gordon and Emma Stuart (Royal Collection Publications) 13. Herbert Ponting Dr E.A. Wilson , October 1911 Toned silver bromide print: 456 x 334 mm 14. Herbert Ponting Lieutenant H.R. Bowers , 11 October 1911 Toned silver bromide print: 456 x 334 mm
15. Herbert Ponting Petty Officer Edgar Evans , November 1911 Toned silver bromide print: 456 x 334 mm
16. Herbert Ponting Captain L.E.G. Oates , October- November 1911 Toned silver bromide print: 456 x 334 mm
17. Herbert Ponting The Terra Nova icebound in the pack , 13 December 1910 Carbon print: 732 x 585 mm
18. Herbert Ponting The ramparts of Mount Erebus , 1911 Carbon print: 722 x 589 mm
19. Herbert Ponting The Terra Nova in a gale , March 1912 Carbon print: 729 x 579 mm
20. Herbert Ponting Grotto in an iceberg , 5 January 1911 Carbon print: 746 x 538 mm
21. Herbert Ponting A weathered iceberg , 29 December 1911 Carbon print: 572 x 740 mm
22. Herbert Ponting The Terra Nova at the ice foot, Cape Evans , 16 January 1911 Carbon print: 735 x 578 mm
23. Herbert Ponting Midnight in the Antarctic summer , 30 January 1911 Carbon print: 530 x 745 mm
24. Herbert Ponting Weddell seal about to dive, Cape Evans , 15 March 1911 Carbon print: 430 x 601 mm
25. Herbert Ponting Weddell seal on the beach at Cape Evans , November 1911 – March 1912 Carbon print: 444 x 602 mm
26. Herbert Ponting The ‘Glad Eye’ , November 1911 – March 1912 Silver bromide print: 457 x 335 mm
27. Herbert Ponting The ‘Stony Stare’ , November 1911– March 1912 Silver bromide print: 456 x 333 mm
28. Herbert Ponting Dr Atkinson and Clissold hauling up the fish-trap, -40°C , 28 May 1911 Silver bromide print: 437 x 610 mm
29. Herbert Ponting The winter journey to Cape Crozier , June 1911 Silver bromide print: 437 x 610 mm
30. Herbert Ponting The freezing of the sea , April 1911 Carbon print: 746 x 581 mm
31. Herbert Ponting End of the Barne Glacier , 1911 Carbon print: 756 x 536 mm
32. Herbert Ponting Captain Scott writing his diary , 7 October 1911 Toned silver bromide print: 444 x 602 mm
33. Herbert Ponting Captain Scott’s last birthday dinner , 6 June 1911 Toned silver bromide print: 436 x 610 mm
34. Henry ‘Birdie’ Bowers (1883 – 1912) The Polar party and their sledge , 4-7 January 1912 Silver bromide print: 275 x 380 mm
35. Henry ‘Birdie’ Bowers Forestalled. Amundsen’s tent at the South Pole , 18 January 1912 Silver bromide print: 275 x 380 mm
36. Henry ‘Birdie’ Bowers At the South Pole , 18 January 1912 Silver bromide print: 275 x 380 mm
37. Edward Adrian Wilson (1872 –1912) The camp at the South Pole , 18 January 1912 Silver bromide print: 275 x 380 mm
38. Tryggve Gran (1889 - 1980) The grave on the Great Ice Barrier , 12-13 November 1912 Silver bromide print: 380 x 275 mm
39. Frank Hurley (1890–1962) Hurley and Sir Ernest Shackleton at Patience Camp , December 1915 – January 1916 Silver bromide print: 205 x 154 mm
40. Frank Hurley Glacier Moraine Fjord, South Georgia , 24 November 1914 Silver bromide print: 154 x 206 mm
41. Frank Hurley Head of Moraine Fjord, South Georgia , 24 November 1914 Silver bromide print: 153 x 205 mm
42. Frank Hurley Sea elephant pups, South Georgia , 1914 Silver bromide print: 152 x 204 mm
43. Frank Hurley Entering the pack ice, Weddell Sea, Lat 57° 59’S. Long 22° 39’ W , 9 December 1914 Silver bromide print: 153 x 205 mm
44. Frank Hurley Typical pack ice, Weddell Sea, Lat 62° 50’S. Long 17°21’ W , December 1914 Silver bromide print: 150 x 202 mm
45. Frank Hurley A pinnacled glacier berg observed in Lat 62° 41’S. Long 17° 32’ W , January 1915 Silver bromide print: 153 x 204 mm
46. Frank Hurley Dawn of 1915 , 1 January 1915 Silver bromide print: 147 x 201 mm
47. Frank Hurley The surroundings of the ship at the end of winter , 1915 Silver bromide print: 154 x 204 mm
48. Frank Hurley The Endurance awaiting the opening up of the pack , 1 January 1915 Silver bromide print: 154 x 201 mm
49. Frank Hurley Young Emperor penguins , 1915 Silver bromide print: 154 x 205 mm
50. Frank Hurley Young King penguin in first year plumage , South Georgia, 1914 Silver bromide print: 152 x 204 mm
51. Frank Hurley Deck of Endurance on the way south , 1914 Silver bromide print: 152 x 205 mm
52. Frank Hurley The departing sun , 1915 Silver bromide print: 154 x 204 mm
53. Frank Hurley Hurley with his team , August - September 1915 Silver bromide print: 153 x 203 mm
54. Frank Hurley Samson at the entrance of his dogloo , February - March 1915 Silver bromide print: 153 x 205 mm
55. Frank Hurley Frank Hurley with cinematograph next to the Endurance , 1 September 1915 Silver bromide print: 205 x 154 mm
56. Frank Hurley The return of the sun after 92 days , 1915 Silver bromide print: 202 x 151 mm
57. Frank Hurley Huge blocks weighing upwards of 50 tons were thrown about in indescribable confusion , September - October 1915 Silver bromide print: 154 x 205 mm
58. Frank Hurley Worsley standing next to a working pressure ridge showing an immense block of over 100 tons being rafted , August 1915 Silver bromide print: 155 x 205 mm
59. Frank Hurley Wild and Shackleton between two pressure ridges , Spring 1915 Silver bromide print: 154 x 205 mm
60. Frank Hurley Dawn after Winter , August 1915 Silver bromide print: 153 x 203 mm
61. Frank Hurley The incipient stage of a pressure ridge , September 1915 Silver bromide print: 155 x 204 mm
62. Frank Hurley Ice flowers , Spring 1915 Silver bromide print: 145 x 193 mm
63. Frank Hurley The night watchman spins a yarn , 1915 Silver bromide print: 153 x 204 mm
64. Frank Hurley Frank Hurley and Leonard Hussey on night watch , Midwinter 1915 Silver bromide print: 154 x 205 mm 65. Frank Hurley Taking occultations , June 1915 Silver bromide print: 203 x 152 mm
66. Frank Hurley Taking the dogs out for exercise , August 1915 Silver bromide print: 205 x 154 mm
67. Frank Hurley The bi-weekly ablutions of the ‘Ritz’, undertaken by Wordie, Cheetham and Macklin , 1915 Silver bromide print: 154 x 203 mm
68. Frank Hurley In the ‘Ritz’, the work room of the Ship , Midwinter, 1915 Silver bromide print: 153 x 203 mm
69. Frank Hurley The Endurance in the garb of winter , June 1915 Silver bromide print: 202 x 152 mm
70. Frank Hurley Wind-sculptured hummocks , 1915 Silver bromide print: 153 x 205 mm
71. Frank Hurley During midwinter , 1915 Silver bromide print: 153 x 205 mm
72. Frank Hurley The ship was the nucleus of a pressure wave , September - October 1915 Silver bromide print: 153 x 202 mm
73. Frank Hurley The Endurance forced out of the ice by the coming together of the floes , 18 October 1915 Silver bromide print: 154 x 200 mm
74. Frank Hurley The ship was forced into this position 15 seconds after the floes came together , 18 October 1915 Silver bromide print, 205 x 154 mm
75. Frank Hurley The Endurance crushed between the floes , 25 October 1915 Silver bromide print: 205 x 151 mm
76. Frank Hurley Wild observes the wreck , 8 November 1915 Silver bromide print: 154 x 205 mm
77. Frank Hurley The party at Ocean Camp on the drifting sea ice: Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Wild on the left , 30 October 1915 Silver bromide print: 152 x 206 mm
78. Frank Hurley The look-out platform at Ocean Camp , November 1915 Silver bromide print: 153 x 205 mm
79. Frank Hurley The exhausted party on the beach at Cape Valentine, Elephant Island , 15 April 1916 Silver bromide print: 123 x 207 mm
80. Frank Hurley Skinning penguins, the staple diet of the party during their stay on Elephant Island , 1916 Silver bromide print: 88 x 202 mm
81. Frank Hurley The Elephant Island party , 10 May 1916 Silver bromide print: 134 x 203 mm
82. Frank Hurley The boat shelter in which the Elephant Island party lived for 4½ months , 1916 Silver bromide print: 133 x 203 mm
83. Frank Hurley The Elephant Island party excavating an ice shelter in the glacier , April 1916 Silver bromide print: 132 x 205 mm
84. Frank Hurley Preparing the boat for the relief voyage to South Georgia , April 1916 Silver bromide print: 132 x 205 mm
85. Frank Hurley Launching the James Caird for the relief voyage to South Georgia , April 1916 Silver bromide print: 128 x 203 mm
86. Frank Hurley The Yelcho sighted , 30 August 1916 Silver bromide print: 158 x 205 mm
87. Frank Hurley Sir Ernest Shackleton arriving at Elephant Island to take off the marooned men , 30 August 1916 Silver bromide print: 147 x 205 mm
88. Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) and Louis Bernacchi (1876-1942), eds i The South Polar Times Volume I: April to August 1902 , 1907 283 x 420 mm – open at Ode to a penguin, p. 29 ii The South Polar Times Volume II: April to August 1903 , 1907 283 x 228 mm – closed
89. Robert Falcon Scott (1868- 1912) Voyage of the ‘Discovery’ vol.2, 1905 246 x 326 mm – open at title page
90. Robert Falcon Scott Scott’s last expedition: being the journals of Captain R.F Scott; arranged by Leonard Huxley, 1913 246 x 335 mm – open at title page and frontispiece
91. Herbert Ponting i The Great White South , 1921 239 x 315 mm – open at title page ii The Great White South , 1926 221 x 229 mm – open at p. 280
92. Aspley Cherry-Garrard (1886- 1959) The South Polar Times Volume III: April to October 1911 , 1914 282 x 458 mm – open at fol.52
93. Union flag taken by Scott to the South Pole in 1912, presented to Scott by Queen Alexandra on 25 June 1910 Silk: 840 x 1660 mm
94. Miniature white ensign flown on Scott’s sledge on the southern journey, 1911- 1912 Silk: 208 x 116 mm (254 x 219 mm frame)
95. Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912) i Within 13 miles of the South Pole, Amundsen’s flag, 16 January 1912 Pencil on paper: 94 x 175 mm (176 x 236 mm frame) ii The South Pole with Amundsen’s flag, 18 January 1912 Pencil on paper: 174 x 96 mm (277 x 153 mm frame)
96. Ernest G. Gillick (1874-1950) i Polar Medal, 1904 Edward VII, with two clasps ANTARCTIC 1902-04 ANTARCTIC 1907-09 Silver, octagonal with white silk ribbon: head of King Edward VII ii Polar Medal, 1904 George V, with three clasps ANTARCTIC 1910-13 ANTARCTIC 1912-14 ANTARCTIC 1914-16 Silver, octagonal with white silk ribbon: ship
97. Kathleen Scott (1878- 1947) Bust of King George V , 1935 Bronze bust on marble plinth: 360 x 200 mm (125 x 184 x 187 mm plinth)
98. Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922), ed. Aurora Australis 1908- 1909 , 1908 271 x 415 mm – open at title page
99. Ernest Shackleton i The Heart of the Antarctic: being the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909, Volume I , 1909 254 x 407 mm – open at p. 222 ii The Heart of the Antarctic: being the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907- 1909, Volume I , 1909 254 x 192 mm - closed
100. Ernest Shackleton Shackleton’s telegram to King Edward VII, 25 March 1909 Telegram on paper: 133 x 242 mm
101. Union flag presented to Shackleton by King George V, 5 August 1914 Silk: 137 x 933 mm
102. Ernest Shackleton i South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914-1917 , 1919 255 x 315 mm – open at Shackleton’s presentation inscription ii South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914-1917 , 1919 225 x 170 mm – closed
103. Frank Wild (1873- 1939) Shackleton’s last voyage: the story of the Quest , 1923 241 x 175 – closed
104. G. Hubert Wilkins (1888- 1958) The Quest Album , 1921-2 i The Cairn , 1922 Silver bromide print: 152 x 110 mm (print) 310 x 820 mm (album when open) ii The Cairn , 1922 Silver bromide print: 152 x 111 mm (print) 310 x 820 mm (album when open)
105. (Ex-cat) James Alexander Stevenson (1881-1937) Bust of King George V in naval uniform , 1914 Bronze: 800 mm tall