Record ID:
440358
Accession number:
MA 23777.1
Created:
New York, New York : Napoleon Sarony, 1882
Credit:
Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2021.
Description:
1 photograph ; ferrotyped silver print, 171 x 239 mm
Notes:
Photograph numbered "15" within the negative at lower left.
Photograph taken by Sarony in New York City in 1882; printed in 1930.
Forms part of a collection of Oscar Wilde trade cards and theatrical photographs (see MA 23777.1-7).
Inscriptions/Markings:
With the subject's name, in pencil, in an unknown hand, and the Culver Pictures hand stamp, bar codes, and labels, on verso.
Summary:
Studio portrait shows Wilde seated, full length, on a sofa covered with a Turkish carpet and fur rug; he wears a quilted double breasted smoking jacket, knee-breeches, and silk stocking as he leans to the left with his arm resting on the arm of the sofa, his head resting against on his hand, with a book (i.e. a copy of his collected "Poems") held in his other hand, resting upright on his thigh.
Provenance:
Purchased from Swann Auction Galleries, Sale 2578, Lot 3, August 19, 2021.
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