BIB_ID
293742
Accession number
MA 7623
Creator
McCormick, F. J., ca. 1890-1947.
Published
1931
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund, 2010.
Description
1 photographic print.
Notes
Inscribed on the reverse: "From Lennox Robinson to M Clarke Sept. 19th 1931 / Photograph of W B Yeats taken at Sorrento Cottage / Dalkey by F. J. McCormick 1931"
The photograph shows W. B. Yeats in profile, seated in an ornately carved and upholstered couch, with the pages of a book he is reading just visible over the side of the couch. This image was reproduced in W. B. Yeats: A Life. The Arch-Poet 1915-1939 by R. F. Foster (2003) where it is incorrectly dated "late 1930's."
M Clarke is Margaret Clarke, wife of artist and stained glass master and book illustrator Harry Clarke.
Sorrento Cottage, Dalkey, was the home of Lennox Robinson.
The photograph shows W. B. Yeats in profile, seated in an ornately carved and upholstered couch, with the pages of a book he is reading just visible over the side of the couch. This image was reproduced in W. B. Yeats: A Life. The Arch-Poet 1915-1939 by R. F. Foster (2003) where it is incorrectly dated "late 1930's."
M Clarke is Margaret Clarke, wife of artist and stained glass master and book illustrator Harry Clarke.
Sorrento Cottage, Dalkey, was the home of Lennox Robinson.
Image: (13.5cm x 9 cm)
Medium
Gelatin silver print, extensive silvering.
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