Spectre Ship in Antarctic Night

Frank Hurley (1885 - 1962), '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 photograph, 15 x 20 cm. Provenance: The Estate of Archdeacon John Bidwell (1884-1974); presented to him by Frank Hurley. The Endurance was Ernest Shackleton's ship on the 1914-1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. It became trapped in ice, and finally sank in the Weddell sea on 21st November, 1915. Frank Hurley had joined the expedition as official photographer in October 1914.