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[Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922)]
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[Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922)]
A polychrome illuminated address on vellum from 'The Guild of the Freemen of the City of London to Sir Ernest Shackleton C.V.O.', [London]: 16 April 1912. Visible area: 55.6 x 40.5cm. The central panel with calligraphic text in black with variously coloured initials and heading, most heightened in liquid gold, ruled in red, with blue and blue/green line fillers, signed at foot by the Master of the Guild and two others, with wide border in the Arts and Crafts style, of polychrome scrolling flowers and foliage on tendrils of liquid gold, with four shaped mounted pictorial cornerpieces on paper with original pencil, brown ink and wash drawings after photographs taken during the Nimrod expedition
PROVENANCE:
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922), and thence by descent.
A fine highly decorative address, with two vignettes from Shackleton's 'Farthest South' and two of the Nimrod in the pack ice. The address from the Guild of Freemen of the City of London thanks Shackleton for his two lectures on the Nimrod expedition given at the Guildhall on 30 November 1911 and 27 February 1912.
A polychrome illuminated address on vellum from 'The Guild of the Freemen of the City of London to Sir Ernest Shackleton C.V.O.', [London]: 16 April 1912. Visible area: 55.6 x 40.5cm. The central panel with calligraphic text in black with variously coloured initials and heading, most heightened in liquid gold, ruled in red, with blue and blue/green line fillers, signed at foot by the Master of the Guild and two others, with wide border in the Arts and Crafts style, of polychrome scrolling flowers and foliage on tendrils of liquid gold, with four shaped mounted pictorial cornerpieces on paper with original pencil, brown ink and wash drawings after photographs taken during the Nimrod expedition
PROVENANCE:
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922), and thence by descent.
A fine highly decorative address, with two vignettes from Shackleton's 'Farthest South' and two of the Nimrod in the pack ice. The address from the Guild of Freemen of the City of London thanks Shackleton for his two lectures on the Nimrod expedition given at the Guildhall on 30 November 1911 and 27 February 1912.
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