Inscribed on the reverse: "From Lennox Robinson to M Clarke Sept. 19th 1931 / Photograph of W B Yeats taken at Sorrento Cottage / Dalkey by F. J. McCormick 1931"
The photograph shows W. B. Yeats in profile, seated in an ornately carved and upholstered couch, with the pages of a book he is reading just visible over the side of the couch. This image was reproduced in W. B. Yeats: A Life. The Arch-Poet 1915-1939 by R. F. Foster (2003) where it is incorrectly dated "late 1930's."
M Clarke is Margaret Clarke, wife of artist and stained glass master and book illustrator Harry Clarke.
Sorrento Cottage, Dalkey, was the home of Lennox Robinson.