Spectre Ship and Three Boats: Shackleton Expedition Photos

'A spectre ship looming stark and white against the darkness of the polar night' (the Endurance in the Antarctic winter darkness, trapped in the Weddell sea, Shackleton Expedition, 27 August 1915), silver gelatin photograp Frank Hurley (1885 - 1962), 'We pulled the three boats a little higher on the beach', (the James Caird, the Dudley Docker and the Stancomb Wills, the day after the first landing on elephant Island, Shackleton Expedition, 15 April 1916), silver gelatin photograph, 20 x 12 cm. Provenance: The Estate of Archdeacon John Bidwell (1884-1974); presented to him by Frank Hurley.