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[Lillie Langtry, 1853-1929, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, holding vase on stand] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Lillie Langtry, 1853-1929, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, holding vase on stand], c1882. — historic photograph
[Lillie Langtry, 1853-1929, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, holding vase on stand], c1882.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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: [Lillie Langtry, 1853-1929, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, holding vase on stand], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Langtry stands full length, turned to the right, with one hand resting near a vase on a pedestal, a pose that gives the portrait a formal, sculpted quality. The photographer was Napoleon Sarony, a New York studio man who made many celebrity portraits of stage performers in the 1880s. Langtry, born in Jersey in the Channel Islands, became known as the "Jersey Lily" after her entry into London society and then the stage, and she began touring the United States in 1882. The date given here is approximate, so the picture is best read as a record of how her public image was being built on both sides of the Atlantic.

Created / publishedc1882.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesCopyright by Napoleon Sarony. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; BI; Actresses; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan903 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-136789

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