Item 759 - Photographs of Ludwig Wittgenstein

Identity area

Reference code

Add. MS a/759

Title

Photographs of Ludwig Wittgenstein

Date(s)

  • 1937-1958 (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

1 black and white portrait photograph, 120 x 165 mm; 1 negative of enlargement of part of this photograph.
Another black and white portrait photograph, 146 x 112 mm.
Letter: 1 sheet.

Context area

Archival history

From papers in the possession of G. E. and Dorothy Moore's granddaughter, Juliet, who died shortly before the donation.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Gift of Prof. Tom Baldwin, G. E. Moore's literary executor, via Prof. Jane Heal.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Print of a photograph of Wittgenstein against a background of foliage labelled as 'taken by D Moore July '37'. According to the label given to this image as the frontispiece to Norman Malcolm's Ludwig Wittgenstein | A Memoir it was taken in June 1937, inread more

Allied materials area

Publication note

Malcolm, N., & Wright, G. H. von. (1958). Ludwig Wittgenstein : a memoir / Norman Malcolm ; with a biographical sketch by Georg Henrik von Wright. London: Oxford University Press.

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