Oscar Wilde / Sarony. – Vintage Poster
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Oscar Wilde / Sarony., a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Oscar Wilde / Sarony.
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Napoleon Sarony's New York studio made this card portrait of Oscar Wilde around 1882, during Wilde's lecture tour of North America on the aesthetic movement. Sarony issued a widely circulated series of Wilde sittings, and the numbered mount and copyright line show how studios sold and protected such images. Albumen prints on card mounts were the standard commercial portrait format of the period. Wilde's carefully staged appearance in these sittings helped make him one of the most recognizable faces of the decade.
| Created / published | c1882. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on card mount : albumen. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1880-1890.Panel card photographs 1880-1890.Albumen prints 1880-1890. |
| Notes | No. 26. Copyright by N. Sarony. Exhibit loan 4221-L. |
| Subjects | Wilde, Oscar,--1854-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,820 × 4,667 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220618 |
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