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SHACKLETON (ERNEST HENRY) STONE (BENJAMIN) "Luncheon Party [including Shackleton and A.J. Balfour] at the House of Commons, June 29 1909", [1914] (2)
14 September 2021, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £4,080 inc. premium
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SHACKLETON (ERNEST HENRY)
STONE (BENJAMIN) "Luncheon Party [including Shackleton and A.J. Balfour] at the House of Commons, June 29 1909", vintage gelatin silver print, mounted on card, captioned and signed ("Benjamin Stone") on the mount, image 160 x 205mm., 1909--SPEAIGHT LTD. Studio portrait of E.H. Shackleton, three-quarter length in suit, vintage gelatin silver print, signed ("Speaight") in pencil by the photographer lower right on original mount, glazed and framed, image 195 x 130mm., [1914] (2)
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Returned from leading the Nimrod expedition, on 29 June Shackleton was introduced to the House of Commons, an event commemorated in Benjamin Stone's group photograph depicting Shackleton seated beside former Prime Minister A.J. Balfour, Chinese Minister Li Jinfang, Sir Edward Pears, Aston Webb, and others, including several shipowners and ironmasters.



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