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ROOSEVELT, Theodore. The Strenuous Life. Essays and Addresses. London: Grant Richards, 1902.
8vo, original publisher's dark red cloth, gilt-lettered, top edge gilt, others uncut (very minor soiling to cloth).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. A PRESENTATION COPY TO JOHN SINGER SARGENT, inscribed and signed in ink by the President on front flyleaf: "To John S. Sargent with the appreciative regard and sincere thanks of Theodore Roosevelt. Feb. 20th 1903."
A PROVOCATIVE ASSOCIATION, linking Roosevelt to the most influential portraitist of the era, whose official standing portrait of Roosevelt still hangs in the White House. Sargent traveled to Washington in February to execute the commission (see notes to lot 172). The portrait was completed late in the month--about the time the present volume was inscribed, perhaps as a sort of parting gift. On 23 February Sargent returned to Boston for the ceremonial opening of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and an exhibition of his own highly regarded portraits at the Museum of Fine Arts.
8vo, original publisher's dark red cloth, gilt-lettered, top edge gilt, others uncut (very minor soiling to cloth).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. A PRESENTATION COPY TO JOHN SINGER SARGENT, inscribed and signed in ink by the President on front flyleaf: "To John S. Sargent with the appreciative regard and sincere thanks of Theodore Roosevelt. Feb. 20th 1903."
A PROVOCATIVE ASSOCIATION, linking Roosevelt to the most influential portraitist of the era, whose official standing portrait of Roosevelt still hangs in the White House. Sargent traveled to Washington in February to execute the commission (see notes to lot 172). The portrait was completed late in the month--about the time the present volume was inscribed, perhaps as a sort of parting gift. On 23 February Sargent returned to Boston for the ceremonial opening of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and an exhibition of his own highly regarded portraits at the Museum of Fine Arts.