Some Woodcuts of Men of Letters
.37: Title page.
.38: Rudyard Kipling [Rudyard Kipling below], bareheaded, face towards the right, with a mustache and spectacles and wearing a white coat.
.39: Count Leo Tolstoi [Tolstoi below], facing the viewer, long beard, clouds and a large rock at left behind.
.40: Thomas Carlyle [Carlyle below], in profile to the right, the sun rising behind a silhouetted skyline probably in Chelsea or Battersea.
.41: Alfred, Lord Tennyson [Alfred Tennyson Poet above], in profile to the right, wearing armor, medieval landscape behind.
.42: Hendrick Ibsen [Ibsen below in panel with masks of Comedy and Tragedy], facing the viewer, with a square beard, spectacles, leafy wallpaper behind.
.43: Robert Louis Stevenson [Robert Louis Stevenson above left], sailboat on the water and a European castle behind.
.44: Robert Browning, Poet [name at top], wearing dark suit, ruff, chains across chest, an Italian city behind.
.45: Victor Hugo [Victor Hugo below], white beard and hair, facing slightly to the right, gargoyles and silhouetted Paris skyline behind.
.46: Ralph Waldo Emerson [Ralph Waldo Emerson above], wearing a dark suit with white shirt and collar, facing left and smiling, an open background.
.47: John Ruskin [Ruskin below], in a dark suit, facing the viewer, with a white beard and dark hair, against a plain background.
.48: William Morris, after Frederick Hollyer [name above], facing the viewer with a full beard, his head supported by his left fist.
.49: Walt Whitman [name below], facing right, with a full beard and long hair, crescent moon, sun and stars in the sky behind.
Artwork Details
- Title: Some Woodcuts of Men of Letters
- Artist: Robert Bryden (British, Coylton, Ayrshire Scotland 1865–1939 Lyndhurst, Ayrshire)
- Publisher: J. M. Dent & Co. (London)
- Sitter: Rudyard Kipling (British (born India), Bombay 1865–1936 Middlesex)
- Sitter: Count Leo Nickolaevich Tolstoi (Russian, 1828–1910)
- Sitter: Thomas Carlyle (British, Annandale, Scotland 1795–1881 London)
- Sitter: Alfred Tennyson (British, Somersby, Lincolnshire 1809–1892 Surrey)
- Sitter: Henrik Ibsen
- Sitter: Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish, Edinburgh 1850–1894 Upolu, Samoa)
- Sitter: Robert Browning (British, London 1812–1889 Venice)
- Sitter: Victor Hugo (French, Besançon 1802–1885 Paris)
- Sitter: Ralph Waldo Emerson (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1803–1882 Concord, Massachusetts)
- Sitter: John Ruskin (British, London 1819–1900 Brantwood, Cumbria)
- Sitter: William Morris (British, Walthamstow, London 1834–1896 Hammersmith, London)
- Sitter: Walt Whitman (American, Long Island, New York 1819–1892 Camden, New Jersey)
- Date: 1899
- Medium: Woodcuts, the title printed in red and black, the others in black
- Dimensions: Sheet: 23 × 18 in. (58.4 × 45.7 cm)
Cover: 24 × 18 1/2 in. (61 × 47 cm) - Classifications: Portfolios, Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of David Silve, 1936
- Object Number: 36.23.37–.49
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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