Wilkie Collins [photograph].

Record ID: 
309827
Accession number: 
MA 11471
Author: 
Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896.
Published: 
New York, [1874]
Description: 
1 photographic print : b&w ; 144 x 98 mm; on card: 166 x 107 mm
Notes: 

This photograph was taken during Collins's 1874 visit to New York.
Photograph is adhered to a black card with "Sarony 680 Broadway" printed at the foot in gold, and with a black ribbon tied in a bow threaded through the upper left corner.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

"Wilkie Collins 1874" signed on a slip of paper pasted to the verso of the card. Two unkown hands have added the notes "Novelists Height 5 ft 6 ins" and "American, 1873?" to the same slip of paper.

Summary: 

Full-length portrait of English novelist Wilkie Collins wearing a fur-lined coat and standing with one foot on a footrest next to a painting on an easel.

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