BIB_ID
332322
Accession number
MA 12983
Published
London, [1881]
Credit line
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.
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.
Provenance
Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2012.
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.
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