Walter Ernest Tittle

Joseph Conrad

Walter Ernest Tittle's original drypoint engraving, Joseph Conrad portrays one of Britain's greatest novelists. Conrad wrote such classics of modern literature as An Outcast of the Islands, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness and a few others listed below were from his pen. This original engraving is printed upon hand-made, laid paper and with wide, full margins as published in New York in 1924. It is signed and dated in the plate by Tittle and signed by him in pencil along the lower plate-mark. This famous portrait engraving of Joseph Conrad is a fine, original example of the art created by the American artist, Walter Tittle.

Joseph Conrad

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Walter Tittle (Springfield, Ohio, 1883 - New York, 1966)
#	Image	Title & Artist	Medium	Date	Notes	-
01-		Joseph Conrad by Walter Ernest Tittle	Original Drypoint Engraving	1924	Signed in pencil by Walter Tittle along the lower plate-mark and signed and dated in the plate by him.	Sold
02.-		Portrait of George Russell by Walter Ernest Tittle	Original Drypoint Engraving	1931	Signed and annotated "5th Trial (Proof)" by Walter Tittle in pen along the lower plate-mark and and dated in the plate by him.	Sold

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Title:	Joseph Conrad
Artist:	Tittle, Walter Ernest (Springfield, Ohio, 1883 - New York, 1966)
Date:	1924
Medium:	Original Drypoint Engraving
Publisher:	Kennedy & Company, New York
Note:	Walter Ernest Tittle 'Walter Tittle': One of America's greatest portrait artists, Walter Tittle studied under William Merritt Chase in New York. During his successful career, Tittle lived and worked in both England and the United States and became a member of the Royal Society of Arts, London, the Society of American Etchers, the Chicago Society of Etchers and the Print Makers' Society of California. His work in etching, lithography and painting include such famous portraits as Joseph Conrad, Arnold Bennett and George Bernard Shaw. Although he rarely numbered his original lithographs, engravings and etchings it is known that Tittle's prints were usually published in editions of only thirty-five impressions.
	Today the graphic art of Walter Tittle is included in the following collections: the Library of Congress and the National Gallery, Washington, DC, the Art Institute of Chicago, the New York Public Library, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, London.
	Joseph Conrad is one of Walter Tittle's most famous works of art. During the last year of his illustrious life, Joseph Conrad sat for both Tittle's engraved and painted portraits of him. Today an impression of this drypoint engraving and the painted portrait are included in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London.
	Joseph Conrad : One of Britain's greatest novelists, Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was actually born of Polish parents in the Ukraine. Spending much of his young adulthood working as a crewman on ships, Conrad left the sea and devoted himself to English life and literature in 1894. Such classics of modern literature as An Outcast of the Islands (1896), Lord Jim (1900), Heart of Darkness (1902), Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907) and Under Western Eyes (1911) were from his pen.
Size:	7 1/4 X 6 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Framed and Matted with 100% Archival Materials
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Condition:	Printed upon hand-made, laid paper and with wide, full margins as published in New York in 1924. Signed and dated in the plate by Tittle and signed by him in pencil along the lower plate-mark. Very faint matte burning is evident in the outer margins, else a richly printed impression and in excellent condition throughout. This famous drypoint engraving of Joseph Conrad stands as a prime example of the art of Walter Tittle, one of America's greatest portraitists.
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