Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.21633

    Portrait of Robert Millner Shackleton

    Date
    1985
    Sitter
    Robert Millner Shackleton (1909 - 2001, British) , Geologist
    Creator
    Unknown, Photographer
    Creator - Organisation
    Godfrey Argent Studio, Photographer
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (print): 205mm
    width (print): 150mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Robert Millner Shackleton inclined to the right and looking out to viewer. He wears a leather jacket, striped shirt and woollen tie.

    Signed by the artist on the front mount and inscribed on the reverse ‘Box 3. PROFESSOR R. M. SHACKLETON F.R.S. 1971, 85 SGRS 8388/14.’

    Stamped ‘COPYRIGHT GODFREY ARGENT STUDIO, 12 HOLLAND ST. LONDON W8 4LT. TEL: 937 0441, 937 4008.’

    Robert Millner Shackleton (1909-2001), British field geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1971. In 1985 he led a joint Royal Society/Academia Sinica expedition to a geologically unknown part of Tibet.

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