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- Estimate
- £1,000–£1,500 hammer ≈ $1,611–$2,416
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Christie's — Maritime Art, London (South Kensington) · 29 April 1999
- Record ID
- TB-2026-6561961
- Record
- first seen 29 Jul 2026 · updated 29 Jul 2026 · source ↗
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Herbert George Ponting, Mount Erebus, 13,300 ft. Christie's, 29 Apr 1999, lot 173. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-6561961.
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Herbert George Ponting, Mount Erebus, 13,300 ft. Christie's, 29 Apr 1999, lot 173. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-6561961.
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From the same sale Maritime Art · Apr 1999
| Lot | Artist | Estimate | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warships and other shipping in a thunderstorm | François-étienne Musin | £3,000–£5,000 | |
| H.M.S. Dreadnought , the Seamen's Hospital ship, moored in the Thames… | William Collingwood Smith, Rws | £1,000–£1,500 | |
| Shipping in the Pool of London | Daniel Turner | £700–£1,000 | |
| The Colombian barquentine Zelia from Riohacha, making her numbers off… | William Howard Yorke | £3,000–£5,000 | |
| Captain James Cook (1728-79) | Cook, James. 1728-1779. | £1,200–£1,800 | |
| An English galliot close in to the shore with an English flagship fir… | After Willem van de Velde II | £1,000–£1,500 |
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| Artist | Lot | vs. estimate | Result USD, incl. premium | Sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Herbert George Ponting | Ponting's portfolio, inscribed 'THIS PORTFOLIO/AND CONTENTS/ | $2,941 | Christie's, Jan 2001 | |
| Herbert George Ponting | 'Death of an iceberg', 1911 | Christie's, May 2000 | ||
| Herbert George Ponting | Members of the 1910-13 Expedition in a formal group outside | Christie's, Apr 1999 | ||
| Henri Cartier-bresson | Taxi Drivers, Berlin | Phillips, Jul 2023 | ||
| Horst P. Horst | Black Corset, NY | Bonhams, Jan 2026 | ||
| Henri Cartier-bresson | Marilyn Monroe, Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach, and Clark Gable | Heritage Auctions, May 2022 | ||
| Herbert George Ponting | The Terra Nova at the Ice Foot | Christie's, Jan 2001 | ||
| Henri Cartier-bresson | [no title recorded] | Dorotheum, Oct 2025 |
The closest sold results by price, artist, and medium — the appraiser's comp set, generated from the corpus. All figures converted to USD at current reference rates.