Oscar Wilde with a cane [photograph].

Record ID: 
443133
Accession number: 
MA 23795
Author: 
Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896, photographer.
Created: 
New York, New York : Napoleon Sarony, 1882
Credit: 
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2022.
Description: 
1 photographic print : ferrotyped silver print ; image: 235 x 165 mm; sheet: 254 x 203 mm
Notes: 

Title from item.
Photograph numbered "22" within the negative at lower right.
Photograph taken by Sarony in New York City in 1882; printed sometime in the 1930s.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Inscribed with the subject's name in pencil, in an unknown hand; with Culver Pictures stamp, barcodes, and labels, on verso.

Summary: 

Photograph shows Oscar Wilde, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, seated, leaning forward, left elbow resting on knee, hand to chin, holding walking stick in right hand, wearing a coat with a heavy fur collar.

Provenance: 
Purchased from Swann Auction Galleries, Sale 2594, Lot 41, February 10, 2022.
Classification: