After Leonard Patten
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… Read more 'One night I dreamed that Burlington Street was full of ice blocks and that I was navigating a ship along it... next morning I hurried like mad into my togs, and down Burlington Street I went... a sign on a doorpost caught my eye. It bore the words "Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition"... I turned into the building.' Captain Frank A. Worsley 'It is obvious that the initial sucess of the coming expedition depends on the ability of Sir E. Shackleton to land his shore party. That he will be able to do so is by no means a certainty. Comparatively little is known of the ice and weather conditions in the Weddell Sea. A bad season may pack the coast-lines with an ice-belt not only impenetrable by ship, but impassable on foot. Sir Ernest Shackleton must, therefore, face the possibilty that he will be unable to find a landing-place either early or late in the season, and be compelled to return baffled at the very outset of his enterprise.' (from Shackleton's plans - are they foolhardy? - margin of safety very slender, Dundee Advertiser, 1 Jan. 1914)
After Leonard Patten

After Leonard Patten

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After Leonard Patten
Sir Ernest Shackleton's new vessel "Endurance", sketched in West India Dock, June 14

signed and inscribed 'to Sir Ernest Shackleton/FRGS Leonard Patten' in pencil, titled 'The Means to the End' by Shackleton in ink
reproduction
12½ x 9¼in. (31.8 x 23.5cm.)

PROVENANCE:
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922), and thence by descent.
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