Ice flowers 1915
Silver bromide print | 14.5 x 19.3 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2580082
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Photograph of 'ice flowers' in the foreground with the Endurance in the background. The delicacy and beauty of the ice formations in this photograph contrast starkly with Hurley’s other pictures of the ice. Ice flowers form when a stretch of water opens up in the ice and then rapidly refreezes. Hurley described how the ice flowers ’illumined by the morning sun, resembled a field of pink carnations’.
Provenance
Presented to King George V, 1917
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Creator(s)
(photographer)Acquirer(s)
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Medium and techniques
Silver bromide print
Measurements
14.5 x 19.3 cm (image) (image)
29.2 x 37.7 cm (page dimensions)
Alternative title(s)
Ice flowers. [Photographs of scenes and incidents in connection with the happenings to the Weddell Sea Party, 1914, 1915, 1916].