Jul 25, 2019
A self-portrait by author H.P. Lovecraft, from a letter to Rheinhart Kleiner, dated 6 December, 1915, and labeled, “H. Lovecraft, Esq. Ao. 1715.”
In the letter the drawing was inclosed with, Lovecraft writes: “I always wanted to be able to draw, but I have no talent, and in one of my pictures you cannot tell a cow from a locomotive. But spurred on by your example, I have just been trying my hand and fountain pen in an endeavor to represent myself just as I would like to be – a poet of two centuries ago, periwig and all. As you will note, I have adopted the old frontispiece engraving style, with little Pegasuses beneath me, and Apollo, Pan, and my family crest above me.”
