Property from the Brooklyn Museum | April 9, 2026
Thu, Apr 9, 2026 10:00AM EDT
Lot 611
Walter Ernest Tittle, 27 Portrait Etchings
Estimate: $300 - $500
Sold for
$300
Sold Price excludes BP
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(American, 1883-1966)
1921-22, possibly proofs, each signed in pencil " Walter Tittle", all but one from Portraits from the Washington Conference on the Limitation of Armaments, 1921-1922, including: President Harding, Charles Evans Hughes, Secretary of State, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, the Earl of Balfour, K. G, Prince Tokugawa, President, Admiral Baron Kato, Premier of Japan, Portrait of Admiral Ferdinand H. H. de Bon, Portrait of Albert Sarraut, Portrait of Aristide Briand, Premier of France, Arthur Hamilton Lee, Viscount Lee of Fareham, General, The Earl of Cavan, Admiral Sir Ernle Chatfield, Robert Borden, Premier of Canada, Sir Maurice Hankey, M. Rene Viviani, Former Premier of France, Carlo Schanzer, Earl Beatty, Marquis Giovanni Venosta, and others along with Augustus John, 1934, drypoint etchings on wove paper, largest sheet 20-1/4 x 15-1/4 in.; unframed
Provenance: Gift of William H. Childs; Property from the Brooklyn Museum
Note: The Washington Naval Conference (also called the Washington Arms Conference or the Washington Disarmament Conference), was chaired by President Warren G. Harding in Washington D.C. from November 12, 1921 to February 6. 1922. Delegates included representatives from the United States, Japan, China, France, Britain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and Portugal. As a result of these talks, three major treaties were signed: Four-Power Treaty, Five-Power Treaty (more commonly known as the Washington Naval Treaty), the Nine-Power Treaty, and a number of smaller agreements.
Walter Tittle was commissioned to create portraits of the delegates, sketched with a needle directly onto copper plates from life. The final portfolio included twenty-five drypoints.
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Gift of William H. Childs; Property from the Brooklyn Museum
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