Lot 200
200
PORTRAITS
EMIL OTTO HOPPÉ

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EMIL OTTO HOPPÉ

Portraits of writers, 1911-1929

Fifteen warm-toned matt gelatin silver prints, one of these on textured paper, and one carbon print, 7¾ x 5¾ in. to 11½ x 9 in., one signed in ink on recto, the carbon print signed in pencil in margin, fourteen mounted at top corners on tissue, these signed and titled in pencil on tissue, each mounted on card, the remaining two titled in pencil on card, six with photographer's ink copyright stamp Copyright E.O. Hoppé Millais House 7 Cromwell Place South Kensington W8 and eight with photographer's printed credit label on verso, in two hand-printed tissue-covered card folders. (16)

Lot Essay

Sitters are as follows: John Galsworthy, 1911; Arnold Bennett, 1911; Hugh Walpole, 1912-13; W.J. Locke, 1912; Sir W.Robertson Nicoll, 1913; Compton Mackenzie, 1913; Hilaire Belloc, circa 1914; Frederick Niven, circa 1914; J.C. Squire, 1917; John Drinkwater, 1917; Leonard Merrick, 1918; J.D. Beresford, 1920; Mary Sinclair, 1920; H.M. Tomlinson, 1922; and the dramatist W.H. Davies, 1929.

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