Photo portrait signed by Rudyard Kipling

Kipling, Rudyard, English poet and novelist, Nobel laureate (1865-1936). Portrait photograph signed.

€ 8.500,00

Photographic portrait signed on the matting by its subject Rudyard Kipling, the English novelist, short-story writer, journalist, political actor, and winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize for literature, best remembered for "The Jungle Books".

The photographer's mount features the blindstamp of the photography studio: "J. Russell Photographer" with its Baker Street address below. The Russell studio was known for portraits of famous individuals of the day, from artists to heads of state. By middle age, Kipling had already won his Nobel Prize and was his work was famous across the English-speaking world.

Signature bright and clear, very well preserved.