Title / object name Mount De La Beche from the Tasman Glacier
|Maker ||Role ||Date | |Burton Brothers ||photography studio
||1893 | |Moodie, George ||photographer ||1893 | |Muir & Moodie
||publisher || | black and white photograph, gelatin silver
print on printing-out-paperMaterials mounting board, silver,
printing-out paper, photographic gelatin |Image ||212 (Height) x
288 (Width) x mm| |Secondary support ||237 (Height) x 302
(Width) x 3 (Depth) mm| gelatin silver prints, black-and-white
prints, landscapes black-and-white photography, photography
Acquisition history unknown During early 1893 Burton Brothers
photographer George Moodie spent seven weeks photographing in
the Southern Alps. He left Dunedin with his ‘mind made up to get
a really good set of alpine photos pictorial and otherwise, by
taking the camera to the most difficult and interesting places
where camera [sic] had never before been placed’.1 The main
audience for this series of photographs was alpine climbers.
Moodie’s trip was the most ambitio