Conrad, Joseph

the majority silverprints, depicting: Joseph, Jessie, and John Conrad in a domestic setting, mounted, inscribed by Jessie to Mr and Mrs Pinker and dated 1920 on the image (image size 225 x 190mm); head and shoulders portrait of Conrad by G.C. Beresford, platinum print, 1904, mounted; Conrad with J.B. Pinker on holiday in Corsica, 1921; Conrad with Pinker and his sons John and Borys; Conrad with Aniela Zagórska; Conrad on board ship; an elderly Conrad smoking in a deck-chair, early 1924; H.G. Wells, seated, half-length, by Mayall and Newman mounted, signed by Wells on the mount and with an inscription on the image ("This is W.F.R."),  (image size 148 x 100mm); the Conrads' drawing room in their final home, 'Oswalds' in Bishopsbourne, Kent; J.B. Pinker standing with two others; and an unidentified ship; various sizes,1900s-1920s, some silvering and fading to a few other images, one photograph with corner torn and several puncture holes, the platinum print with significant surface wear

Sotheby's, 16 December 2010, lot 133

Condition is described in the main body of the catalogue, where appropriate
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A fascinating cache of personal and informal images of Conrad. These photographs belonged to J.B. Pinker (1863-1922), one of the most important literary agents of the early twentieth century and a close friend of Conrad (see Part I, note alongside lot 24).