This image is commonly accepted as the first known photograph of the Franz Josef Glacier. It was reproduced as a wood engraving in "The official handbook of New Zealand", by Julius Vogel (London, Wyman & Sons, 1875), attributed to a sketch by William Fox. It was attributed to "the late Mr Pringle" in "Geology of the provinces of Canterbury and Westland", by Sir Julius Von Haast (1879).