Photography Collections Database

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Call Number:

PH-03031

Collection Name:

Wyndham Lewis Literary File Photography Collection

Creator:

Coburn, Alvin Langdon (1882 - 1966)

Lewis, Wyndham (1882 - 1957)

No. of Items:

5 phootographs

Span Dates:

1910s-1950s

Description:

The collection consists of five images of and related to the painter, novelist, and editor Wyndham Lewis (British, 1882-1957). Select item-level descriptions follow.

P4 -- Coburn, Alvin Langdon (British, 1882-1966). Wyndham Lewis, 25 February 1916, printed 1922. Collotype;
980:0042:0001 -- Unidentified photographer. Wyndham Lewis, undated. Gelatin silver print (postcard format);
980:0110:0001-0003 -- Photographic reproductions of semi-cubist figurative paintings by Lewis, undated. Gelatin silver prints.

Further descriptions of some items may be available in a card catalog in the repository.

This collection forms a part of the Literary Files Photography Collection is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally includes portraits and images by, collected by, of, and/or related to those entities.

Accession No(s):

P4; 980:0042:0001; 980:0110:0001-0003

Location(s):

Lewis, W., Lit File (P4; 980:0042:0001; 980:0110:0001-0003)
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See Also:

Wyndham Lewis Collection: Related manuscript materials, from which these materials were transferred, are located in the Wyndham Lewis Collection (MS-02481).

Wyndham Lewis Art Collection: Art works by Lewis are located in the Wyndham Lewis Art Collection (AR-00162)