Oscar Wilde [photograph].

Record ID: 
332322
Accession number: 
MA 12983
Published: 
London, [1881]
Credit: 
Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2012.
Description: 
1 photographic print ; 145 x 104 mm; on card: 166 x 109 mm
Notes: 

Date of photograph inferred from relationship to a half-plate glass negative in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery (NPG x82203).
Photograph is adhered to a card with "Elliott & Fry, Copyright 55 & 56 Baker St. London. W" printed at the foot, and "Elliott and Fry Photographers 55 & 56 Baker Street, London W." printed on the verso.

Summary: 

A cabinet card with a sepia-toned three-quarter-length, three-quarter profile portrait of Oscar Wilde, wearing a fur-trimmed coat and holding a hat, gloves, and walking stick.

Provenance: 
Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2012.
Classification: