Oscar Wilde / Sarony. – Historic Print
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Oscar Wilde / Sarony.
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Oscar Wilde sits for this albumen card portrait by Napoleon Sarony, the New York photographer whose studio made some of the most widely circulated celebrity images of the 1880s. Wilde was touring America as a lecturer on aesthetics around 1882, and Sarony's studio photographed him at the height of that fame, when his flamboyant dress and languid poses were the subject of newspaper caricatures. The card mount and copyright notice mark it as a commercial portrait, sold to fans and collected in albums of the period. It is a useful record of how a writer's public image was built through photography.
| 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 | 680 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 14; No. 1022. Copyright by N. Sarony. Exhibit loan 4221-L. |
| Subjects | Wilde, Oscar,--1854-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,191 × 5,353 px · prints to 11 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif13274_OscarWildeSarony |
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