Langston Hughes

Verso of mount: signed and stamped in black ink, center right [encircled]: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN; inscribed in black ink, upper left: MP/IP; inscribed in graphite, upper center: Langston Hughes; inscribed in black ink, upper right: 14476 P-12; stamped in black ink, upper right: [1 star, struck through]; inscribed in black ink, upper right: BK; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, upper left: REF. 4786; inscribed in graphite, upper right [struck through]: C-9; inscribed in blue ink and black ink, center [in rectangular border]: Langston Hughes / NEW YORK, JUNE 27, 1947.; stamped in black ink, center: COPYRIGHT / NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT / WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS, INC.; stamped in black ink, center: PHOTOGRAPH / BY / PENN; inscribed in graphite, lower center: C-511 [with arrow pointing right] / Neg. only; stamped and inscribed in black ink, lower left: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1984 by Irving Penn, COURTESY OF VOGUE / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner and / THE CONDE NASTE PUBLICATIONS INC.; stamped and inscribed in black ink, lower right: SIGNED, SILVER PRINTS OF / THIS NEGATIVE NOT EXCEEDING 3.; inscribed in black ink, lower center: Print made near to date of / photographic sitting. / I.P.