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[Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922)]
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[Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922)]
A small folio including three photographs comprising: Fridtjof Nansen (signed by the sitter and dated 'Fridtjof Nansen/Oct.16.1909'); Sir Ernest Shackleton, Admiral R.E. Peary, Captain Roald Amundsen, 1910; and Vilhjalmur Stefannsson (dedicated on the mount 'To Sir Ernest Shackleton/with the friendship and admiration of/Vilhjalmur Stefannsson/April 10, 1913')
10¼ x 7¾in. (26.1 x 19.7cm.) and smaller
PROVENANCE:
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922), and thence by descent.
[With:] MITTET & Co. (publishers). Kristiana og omegn. Oslo: Mittet & Co. Kunstforlag, [no date but circa 1909]. Oblong 2° (23.3 x 30cm.). Tinted throughout, title with decorative vignette, 15 plates. Original thin card wrappers, upper cover blocked in gilt. Provenance: Lady Shackleton (presentation inscription 'The last line:/"And, Mrs Shackleton, we all thank you/for coming here"/Yours sincerely/Alex Nansen'), and thence by descent.
A photographic record of Christiana (Oslo), presented by Fridtjof Nansen's brother Alexander to Emily Shackleton. During October Shackleton and his wife made a highly successful lecture tour of the continent. 'The enthusiasm was perhaps greatest in Christiana. There the students, led by Amundsen, conducted Shackleton in a torch-light procession from his hotel to the lecture hall, and afterwards carried him shoulder-high, with short barking cheers, nine times repeated, that express so well the fervour of the roused Scandinavian spirit.' (H.R. Mill, The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton, London, 1923, p.166)
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A small folio including three photographs comprising: Fridtjof Nansen (signed by the sitter and dated 'Fridtjof Nansen/Oct.16.1909'); Sir Ernest Shackleton, Admiral R.E. Peary, Captain Roald Amundsen, 1910; and Vilhjalmur Stefannsson (dedicated on the mount 'To Sir Ernest Shackleton/with the friendship and admiration of/Vilhjalmur Stefannsson/April 10, 1913')
10¼ x 7¾in. (26.1 x 19.7cm.) and smaller
PROVENANCE:
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922), and thence by descent.
[With:] MITTET & Co. (publishers). Kristiana og omegn. Oslo: Mittet & Co. Kunstforlag, [no date but circa 1909]. Oblong 2° (23.3 x 30cm.). Tinted throughout, title with decorative vignette, 15 plates. Original thin card wrappers, upper cover blocked in gilt. Provenance: Lady Shackleton (presentation inscription 'The last line:/"And, Mrs Shackleton, we all thank you/for coming here"/Yours sincerely/Alex Nansen'), and thence by descent.
A photographic record of Christiana (Oslo), presented by Fridtjof Nansen's brother Alexander to Emily Shackleton. During October Shackleton and his wife made a highly successful lecture tour of the continent. 'The enthusiasm was perhaps greatest in Christiana. There the students, led by Amundsen, conducted Shackleton in a torch-light procession from his hotel to the lecture hall, and afterwards carried him shoulder-high, with short barking cheers, nine times repeated, that express so well the fervour of the roused Scandinavian spirit.' (H.R. Mill, The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton, London, 1923, p.166)
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