Lot 168 · Maritime Art
Four gelatin silver prints, from Captain Scott's personal album, mounted on the original album leaves, each inscribed, as follows: 'The Terra Nova off Cape Evans', 'The Terra Nova in McMurdo Sound', 'The Terra Nova ice-bound 800 miles from land', and 'Christmas-eve in ice pack'.
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- Estimate
- £2,200–£2,800 hammer ≈ $3,543–$4,510
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Christie's — Maritime Art, London (South Kensington) · 29 April 1999
- Record ID
- TB-2026-6561958
- Record
- first seen 29 Jul 2026 · updated 29 Jul 2026 · source ↗
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Herbert George Ponting, Four gelatin silver prints, from Captain Scott's personal album, mounted on the original album leaves, each inscribed, as follows: 'The Terra Nova off Cape Evans', 'The Terra Nova in McMurdo Sound', 'The Terra Nova ice-bound 800 miles from land', and 'Christmas-eve in ice pack'. Christie's, 29 Apr 1999, lot 168. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-6561958.
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Herbert George Ponting, Four gelatin silver prints, from Captain Scott's personal album, mounted on the original album leaves, each inscribed, as follows: 'The Terra Nova off Cape Evans', 'The Terra Nova in McMurdo Sound', 'The Terra Nova ice-bound 800 miles from land', and 'Christmas-eve in ice pack'. Christie's, 29 Apr 1999, lot 168. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-6561958.
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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 |
Comparable results nearest sold works, same medium & price band
| Artist | Lot | vs. estimate | Result USD, incl. premium | Sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Herbert George Ponting | Captain Scott writing in his diary, 7th October 1911 | $6,335 | Bonhams, May 2012 | |
| Herbert George Ponting | Camp at Cape Evans, circa 1910-1912 | Christie's, May 2000 | ||
| Henri Cartier-bresson | Dieppe, France, 1926 | Chiswick Auctions, May 2026 | ||
| Henri Cartier-bresson | Bali, Indonesia | Sotheby's, Dec 2021 | ||
| Herbert George Ponting | 'Death of an iceberg', 1911 | Christie's, May 2000 | ||
| Bill Brandt | Campden Hill, London | Phillips, Nov 2022 | ||
| Henri Cartier-bresson | Picnic on the Banks of the Marne | Bonhams, Aug 2021 | ||
| Horst P. Horst | Male Nude I | Bonhams, Jun 2024 |
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.