Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922)

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Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922)

Studio portrait photograph of Shackleton, [1918], 20.5 x 14.5cm., mounted on card, inscribed on the image in ink 'To Ray/from Daddy/Oct 9th. 1918', modern frame.

Provenance: Raymond Swinford Shackleton (inscription); by descent.

A fine head and shoulders portrait of Shackleton, in the uniform of an army Major, inscribed to his eldest son, shortly before leaving London to join the Allied forces at Murmansk in north Russia.

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