Item 759 - Photographs of Ludwig Wittgenstein

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.

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

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

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, in the garden of the Moores' house in Cambridge. There is also a negative of an enlargement of Wittgenstein's head from this image, used for the dust jacket of Malcolm's book, and a second portrait print of Wittgenstein.

A note from Derek Hudson of Oxford University Press to Dorothy Moore, dated 14 Feb. 1958, informs her that the Press has now received 'a good print of your (complete) photograph which we can use as our frontispiece' from Malcolm, so he now returns 'the less successful print' she kindly sent him, as well as the negative which Malcolm sent earlier.

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.