BIB_ID
440372
Accession number
MA 23777.3
Display Date
188-?
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Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2021.
Description
1 print : tinted lithograph ; 145 x 83 mm
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
A template trade card lacking advertising text and blank on the verso.
The Library owns a copy of this trade card with printed advertising text by the tobacco company Straiton & Storm (see PML 198739.23).
Forms part of a collection of Oscar Wilde trade cards and theatrical photographs (see MA 23777.1-7).
A template trade card lacking advertising text and blank on the verso.
The Library owns a copy of this trade card with printed advertising text by the tobacco company Straiton & Storm (see PML 198739.23).
Forms part of a collection of Oscar Wilde trade cards and theatrical photographs (see MA 23777.1-7).
Provenance
Purchased from Swann Auction Galleries, Sale 2578, Lot 1, August 19, 2021.
Summary
Card shows the full-legth figure of Oscar Wilde, reproduced from an 1882 studio portrait by photographer Napoleon Sarony, standing in front of a curtain decorated with sunflowers next to a "Japonaiserie" podium with a bouquet of containing a calla lily and a sunflower.
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