An edition of Contemporary portraits (1915)
Contemporary portraits [first series]
By Frank Harris
Publish Date
1920
Publisher
Brentano's
Language
eng
Pages
346
Description:
A collection of pen-portraits of authors and artists from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Whistler, Rodin, Verlaine, and Oscar Wilde.
subjects: American Authors, Artists, Authors, Biography, English Authors, Biographies, Artistes, Écrivains, CHR 1920, PRO Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
People: Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909), Anatole France (1844-1924), Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), Augustus Edwin John (1878-1961), Ernest Renan (1823-1892), George Meredith (1828-1909), Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), Henri, 1891-1915 Gaudier-Brzeska, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Jean-Henri Fabre (1823-1915), John Davidson (1857-1909), Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949), Michael Edward Hicks-Beach, 1st earl, 1837-1916 St. Aldwyn, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Paul Verlaine (1844-1896), Richard Francis Burton Sir (1821-1890), Richard Middleton (1882-1911), Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
Times: 19th century, 20th century