Wells (H.G.).- Hartley (Alfred 1855-1933), Attributed to. Study of a recumbent man, traditionally understood to show H.G. Wells at Sandgate, circa 1896, graphite on machine-made wove paper, dated 'Oct. 30' lower right, 175 x 250 mm. (6 7/8 x 9 7/8 in), hinged into mount, surface dirt, unframed, bears printed attribution and description to reverse of mount, [circa 1896].
⁂ Wells was understood to have visited Sandgate in 1896 for the benefit of his health. He was to end up staying for 13 years, during which Wells was highly productive writing A Modern Utopia (1905), In the Days of the Comet (1906), as well as bestselling non-fiction works such as Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought (1901).
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