This self-portrait of Frank Hurley under the bow of the Endurance is from a set of only 17 colour photos that survived from Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition. Taken using the newly invented Paget process they are unique one-off images, and are the only ones from the expedition taken in colour. A further 15 photos were taken in South Georgia by Hurley in 1917. All 32 colour plates are held by the Library.