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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Oscar Wilde / Sarony.. 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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Few sitters of the 1880s drew as much public attention as Oscar Wilde, and this albumen print on a card mount shows him as the New York photographer Napoleon Sarony recorded him around 1882, the year Wilde toured the United States lecturing on aestheticism. The card bears Sarony's copyright notice, a reminder that studio portraits of well-known figures were sold widely in the period and that the photographer helped shape how the public saw the sitter. Wilde, then in his late twenties, cultivated a deliberately theatrical image, and portraits like this one helped make his face a recognizable emblem of the Aesthetic movement.
| 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 | 895 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157621 |
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