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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A window into the past: Oscar Wilde / Sarony., preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Oscar Wilde / Sarony.
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Napoleon Sarony, a New York studio photographer, made this card-mounted albumen portrait of Oscar Wilde around 1882, the year Wilde toured the United States and Canada lecturing on aesthetics. The copyright line and the "No. 17" marking show that Sarony registered the image for sale, which was common for celebrity portraits of the period. Such cartes and cabinet cards circulated widely among admirers and the press, helping make Wilde a recognizable figure of the aesthetic movement well before his later fame as a playwright.
| 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 | 683 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 17. Copyright by N. Sarony. Exhibit loan 4221-L. |
| Subjects | Wilde, Oscar,--1854-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,791 × 4,677 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220659 |
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