Every day Sophie Dupre presents two items from her large stock of signed photographs, autograph letters, autographs for sale, royal memoralbilia and antiquarian manuscripts.
The photographs are presented with the catalogue descriptions.
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December 09
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1883 Poet Rabindranath Tagore married Mrinalini Devi in an arranged marriage. She was 10 years old at the time. They had five children, two of whom died in childhood. He was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
In 1847 George Grossmith was born. He was an English comedian, writer, composer, actor, and singer. His performing career spanned more than four decades.
TAGORE (Sir Rabindranath, 1861-1941, Indian Poet & Philosopher, Nobel Prize Winner)
Signature in roman letters, written in an elderly but careful hand, on piece 2¾” x 11”, together with two magazine photos of Tagore in 1926, no place, no date, circa 1940
55483
GROSSMITH (George, senior, 1847-1912, from 1877 leading Savoy Opera Star, the Original ‘Ko-Ko’ and ‘Lord Chancellor’)
Vintage postcard photo by Rotary Photo, signed, inscribed, “yours faithfully” and dated, showing him half length with his arms crossed, 5½” x 3½”, no place, 1907
34685
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