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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Oscar Wilde / Sarony.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Oscar Wilde / Sarony.
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Oscar Wilde posed for this albumen card portrait by the New York photographer Napoleon Sarony, whose studio made some of the most widely circulated celebrity images of the period. Wilde was then touring the United States on a lecture circuit, and cabinet cards and panel cards like this one were sold to fans eager for a likeness of the author and aesthete. The copyright notation on the mount, credited to Sarony, shows how commercial such portraits were in the 1880s. Look closely at the pose and the careful lighting, which reflect the theatrical self-presentation Wilde cultivated.
| 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 | 3,805 × 4,720 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220622 |
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