Oscar Wilde / Sarony. – Historic Print
(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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This rare historic photograph captures Oscar Wilde / Sarony. in remarkable 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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Napoleon Sarony, a New York studio photographer, made this albumen portrait of Oscar Wilde on a card mount around 1882, the year Wilde toured the United States lecturing on aesthetics. Wilde was already known for his flamboyant style, and Sarony's studio sittings helped shape a public image of the young Irish writer as a figure of deliberate elegance. The copyright line naming Sarony shows how photographers of the period registered their images to guard against unauthorized copying. Albumen prints on card mounts were the standard format for commercial portraits in the 1880s.
| 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 | 679 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 13. Copyright by N. Sarony. Exhibit loan 4221-L. |
| Subjects | Wilde, Oscar,--1854-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,863 × 4,741 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220664 |
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