The photograph offered here is the best known of three portraits Edward Weston made of English writer D. H. Lawrence in Mexico in 1924. It is accompanied by a photographic postcard of Lawrence and companions José Garcia and Donald Miller in the ruins at Mitla, sent by Lawrence to Weston in December of that year. On the reverse, Lawrence refers to his sitting with Weston: “I shall be glad to have the photographs, but will you let me pay for them! Put the bill in with them. And let me know what I can do about getting them placed for you – in Vanity Fair, for example – or in a London Illustrated. . .”