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[W. B. Yeats]--Photographs
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2,500 - 3,500 GBP
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Description
- [W. B. Yeats]--Photographs
- Photographic portrait of W.B. Yeats
- paper
three-quarter length, seated with his hand to his face, vintage silverprint (157 x 112 mm), mounted (mount size 247 x 197mm), inscribed by the sitter on the mount ("WB Yeats Jan 26. 1914")
[with:] Niall Montgomery, autograph letter signed, to Anne Yeats, presenting her with the photograph, which was amongst the papers of his father, James Montgomery, Dublin, 3 December 1975
[with:] Niall Montgomery, autograph letter signed, to Anne Yeats, presenting her with the photograph, which was amongst the papers of his father, James Montgomery, Dublin, 3 December 1975
Catalogue Note
This photograph appears to have been inscribed for James Montgomery, a close friend of Arthur Griffith and Oliver St John Gogarty, who in 1923 was appointed the Free State's first film censor.