POLAR PONTING (HERBERT) "Captain Scott's Birthday Dinner, 6 June 1911", captioned "Scott's antarctica Expedition" in pencil in lower margin of image [Fine Art Society. Ponting Exhibition, No.51]; "Dimitri Geroff [Girov] and some of the dogs", SIGNED BY GIROV ("Dimitri Geroff 1915-28-8") in ink on the image, both gelatin silver prints, pasted on one album sheet (with 3 smaller photographs of China on verso), images each 120 x 168mm., [negatives c.1911-12] Fußnoten Two vintage gelatin silver prints by Herbert Ponting one the celebrated image depicting Captain Scott's birthday dinner, the other a scarcer image of the Expedition's Russian dog handler Dimitri Girov, standing on the ice with a team of dogs. Girov (1889-1932) was "a popular and effective member of the expedition and took part in laying supply depots with the dogs, [and] he was also one of the team who found the dead members of the South Pole Party at their final camp" (coolantarctica website). He was to die of a heart attack in 1932, having been imprisoned in Vladistock during a communist party purge. Provenance: Dimitrii Girov gave the photographs to Robert W. Kinipple, Chief Inspector of Police in Shanghai, the current owner's grandfather.
POLAR PONTING (HERBERT) "Captain Scott's Birthday Dinner, 6 June 1911", captioned "Scott's antarctica Expedition" in pencil in lower margin of image [Fine Art Society. Ponting Exhibition, No.51]; "Dimitri Geroff [Girov] and some of the dogs", SIGNED BY GIROV ("Dimitri Geroff 1915-28-8") in ink on the image, both gelatin silver prints, pasted on one album sheet (with 3 smaller photographs of China on verso), images each 120 x 168mm., [negatives c.1911-12] Fußnoten Two vintage gelatin silver prints by Herbert Ponting one the celebrated image depicting Captain Scott's birthday dinner, the other a scarcer image of the Expedition's Russian dog handler Dimitri Girov, standing on the ice with a team of dogs. Girov (1889-1932) was "a popular and effective member of the expedition and took part in laying supply depots with the dogs, [and] he was also one of the team who found the dead members of the South Pole Party at their final camp" (coolantarctica website). He was to die of a heart attack in 1932, having been imprisoned in Vladistock during a communist party purge. Provenance: Dimitrii Girov gave the photographs to Robert W. Kinipple, Chief Inspector of Police in Shanghai, the current owner's grandfather.
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