Lot 290

CHURCHILL, SIR WINSTON SALEROOM NOTICE: PHOTOGRAPH HAS BEEN TRIMMED AND APPLIED TO A SECONDARY MOUNT SIGNED BY CHURCHILL WITH THE STONEMAN STAMP TO THE REVERSE
PHOTOGRAPH, SIGNED TO MOUNT

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 31 January 2019 at 11:00 GMT
£4,750
Description
silver print showing Churchill resting his right hand on the edge of the Cabinet table, 12.2 x 11cm, mounted and possibly trimmed, with the stamp of the photographer Walter Stoneman to the reverse of the secondary mount, signed to the mount 'Winston S. Churchill 1945', with a compliments slip tucked behind the image: "With Mr Churchill's compliments and best wishes", dated 30th December 1945, on Chartwell headed paper with the additional address of 28 Hyde Park Gate, framed and glazed
Footnote
Provenance: Given by Churchill to his wartime Dutch translator, Benjamin Barend van Leeuwen. Thence by family descent.
