'Coming Home Dinner to Sir Ernest H. Shackleton April 9, 1917, Bohemian Club': a watercolour depicting the Endurance frozen in the Weddell Sea and inscribed with a poem to Shackleton, above a sheet of signatures commemorating the dinner at the Bohemian Club

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Percy Gray (fl. 1916-17) and signatories
'Coming Home Dinner to Sir Ernest H. Shackleton April 9, 1917, Bohemian Club': a watercolour depicting the Endurance frozen in the Weddell Sea and inscribed with a poem to Shackleton, above a sheet of signatures commemorating the dinner at the Bohemian Club
the image signed and inscribed 'Percy Gray/San Francisco/California/COMING HOME DINNER to SIR ERNEST H. SHACKLETON /April 9, 1917 Bohemia Club' and further inscribed with the poem 'Into the Stygian reaches of Antartic (sic) night,/Across unending wastes of age-old snow.../Bohemia, then, who sped him on his way,/.../With all the world acclaims th'accomplished deed,/And crowns him with imperishable bay'
watercolour heightened with white on grey paper above the sheet of signatures
35 x 191/8in. (88.9 x 48.6cm.) including the Bohemian Club silver painted frame

Provenance

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922), and by descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

The present lot was illustrated in the souvenir programme of the 'Testimonial Benefit to Lieutenant Sir Ernest H. Shackleton...' (see note to the previous lot) held at the Civic Center, San Francisco, 19 April, 1917, p.7.

Shackleton returned to San Francisco on 9 April 1917 (after the relief of the Ross Sea Party), lecturing there and across the United States on his return journey to England.

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