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SIR ERNEST HENRY SHACKLETON (1874-1922)
'VANDYK' (photographer). Studio portrait photograph of Shackleton, circa 1921, 196 x 147mm., mounted on card with photographer's 'signature' and printed credit, inscribed by Shackleton to his principal financial backer John Rowett: 'To John Q. from Ernest of the "Quest" Bless you'. (Old marks from adhesive tape at head and foot of mount, just touching inscription).
John Quiller Rowett, who had made a fortune mostly from rum, originally agreed to partly finance Shackleton's proposed expedition on the Quest to the artic under the auspices of the Canadian government. When the Canadians pulled out Rowett, an old Dulwich school-friend of Shackleton's, agreed to finance the entire expedition and that it should go south rather than north. The present photograph was probably signed in the summer of 1921 shortly before the departure of the Quest.
'VANDYK' (photographer). Studio portrait photograph of Shackleton, circa 1921, 196 x 147mm., mounted on card with photographer's 'signature' and printed credit, inscribed by Shackleton to his principal financial backer John Rowett: 'To John Q. from Ernest of the "Quest" Bless you'. (Old marks from adhesive tape at head and foot of mount, just touching inscription).
John Quiller Rowett, who had made a fortune mostly from rum, originally agreed to partly finance Shackleton's proposed expedition on the Quest to the artic under the auspices of the Canadian government. When the Canadians pulled out Rowett, an old Dulwich school-friend of Shackleton's, agreed to finance the entire expedition and that it should go south rather than north. The present photograph was probably signed in the summer of 1921 shortly before the departure of the Quest.