Oscar Wilde / Sarony. – Vintage Poster
(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. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Oscar Wilde / Sarony.
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Here the sitter is the Irish writer Oscar Wilde, photographed by the New York studio of Napoleon Sarony around 1882, the year Wilde toured the United States lecturing on the Aesthetic Movement. The albumen print is mounted on a cabinet card, the sturdy format that made studio portraits popular collectibles in the 1880s. Sarony was among the best-known portrait photographers of the era, and the record's copyright notice shows he registered the image himself, a sign of how valuable celebrity likenesses had become. Wilde himself was a deliberate performer of his own image, and this sitting captures the polished, self-assured persona that made him a sensation on the lecture circuit.
| 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 | 677 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 11. 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 × 4,667 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220620 |
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