Oscar Wilde / Sarony. – Vintage Wall Art
(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. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Oscar Wilde / Sarony.
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Oscar Wilde sits for this cabinet card portrait by Napoleon Sarony, the New York photographer who turned out many of the period's most recognizable studio likenesses. The image dates to about 1882, the year Wilde toured the United States lecturing on the Aesthetic movement, and it captures the carefully cultivated image he brought with him across the Atlantic. Sarony's albumen print on a cabinet card was a popular format of the 1880s, sold and collected as a keepsake of celebrities and public figures.
| Created / published | c1882. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on cabinet card mount : albumen. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1880-1890.Cabinet photographs 1880-1890.Albumen prints 1880-1890. |
| Notes | 675 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 9. Copyright by N. Sarony. Exhibit loan 4221-L. |
| Subjects | Wilde, Oscar,--1854-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,828 × 4,705 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220660 |
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