BIB_ID
440374
Accession number
MA 23777.4
Display Date
Buffalo, N.Y. : Cusack & Co., 188-
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Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2021.
Description
1 print : chromolithograph ; 138 x 77 mm
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Title from item.
Advertising text on verso for "Neilson's secret for the complexion. ... Address all letters to Mme Marie Fontaine 112 Main St. Buffalo, N.Y."
"Neilson" may have been a reference to the popular actress Adelaide Nielson.
Forms part of a collection of Oscar Wilde trade cards and theatrical photographs (see MA 23777.1-7).
Advertising text on verso for "Neilson's secret for the complexion. ... Address all letters to Mme Marie Fontaine 112 Main St. Buffalo, N.Y."
"Neilson" may have been a reference to the popular actress Adelaide Nielson.
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
A trade card for "Neilson's secret for the complexion" for sale by Mme Marie Fontaine, 112 Main Street, Buffalo, New York, featuring a color illustration of a young woman (presumably intended to represent Patience of the Gilbert & Sullivan 1881 opera of the same name) carrying a wooden pail, and a portrait of a smiling Oscar Wilde, surrounded by sunflowers.
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