HARDY (THOMAS) Portrait photograph of Thomas Hardy, by Bernard Griffin, SIGNED BY THE SITTER ('Thomas Hardy, 18 Novr. 1911') on the mount, gelatin silver print, on photographer's original mount (with printed details 'Bernard Griffin, Photographer, Dorchester' lower right), image 145 x 100mm., mount 203 x 150mm., [c.1910/11] Footnotes: Signed portrait of Thomas Hardy, shown standing at a table with shelves in the background, in a holding a sheet of paper. Taken by the local Dorchester photographer Bernard Griffin, the official photographer to the Dorset County Museum, the image was perhaps taken to mark the honouring of Hardy with the Freedom of the City in 1910, or when in the following year he donated to the museum the original manuscript of his Mayor of Casterbridge. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing