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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Oscar Wilde / Sarony.
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Few portraits of Oscar Wilde from his American tour are as widely reproduced as the studio work of Napoleon Sarony, the New York photographer named in this copyright line. Wilde lectured across the United States in 1882 on the aesthetic movement, and the portraits made during that tour helped turn his public image into a fashion in its own right. This albumen print on a card mount reflects the small-format portrait style popular in the 1880s, when readers and admirers collected likenesses of writers and performers.
| 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 | Copyright by N. Sarony. Exhibit loan 4221-L. |
| Subjects | Wilde, Oscar,--1854-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,820 × 4,687 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220661 |
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