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BROOKE (RUPERT)
Studio photograph of Rupert Brooke by Sherril Schell, with studio signature on the mount ("Sherril Schell"), showing Brooke head and shoulders in profile facing to the right, [1913]

11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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BROOKE (RUPERT)

Studio photograph of Rupert Brooke by Sherril Schell, with studio signature on the mount ("Sherril Schell"), showing Brooke head and shoulders in profile facing to the right; on the original mount with Schell's studio stamp on the reverse of the photograph and the mount, with original card-and-paper folder, the upper cover blind-stamped with a medallion of a Regency couple plighting their troth, gelatin silver print, photograph slightly sunned with some off-setting onto the fly sheet, a few light fox-marks and some dust-staining, size of image 223 x 190mm., overall 354 x 277mm., [1913]

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THE DEFINING IMAGE OF RUPERT BROOKE, later to be used as frontispiece to the posthumously-published 1914 and Other Poems (1915) and as the model for the memorial plaque in Rugby Chapel. Sherril Schell (1877-1964) took a group of nearly a dozen photographs of Brooke in April 1913, on a foggy day, without artificial light, in the living room of his flat in St George's Square, Pimlico. This particular pose, the most famous of the sequence, showing Brooke's head and shoulders bare and his hair tousled, had been suggested by Brooke himself; see Schell's account, 'The Story of a Photograph', in The Bookman, no. 63, August 1926, p. 688. Schell lived in London during the second and third decade of the century, afterwards moving back to America, where he spent the rest of his life; the present print bearing his studio stamp 'Photograph by/ Sherril Schell/ 116, Victoria Street, S.W./ Telephone 7144 – Victoria'. See illustration overleaf.

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