Mr. Oscar Wilde. Photographer: Downey, William and Daniel
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Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length seated, full-face studio portrait of Oscar Wilde, mounted on card, with letterpress title and photographer's credit on mount.
Enlarged photographic copy from a small snapshot of a production of Oscar Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Earnest.' Photographer: Unknown
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Contained in envelope with label reading: 'Enlargements of a few of the TINY photographs of original production of 'Importance of Being Earnest.' Collection of Edy Craig. Taken by Princeton at time of 1890 Exhibition. February 1966.'
Enlarged photographic copy from a small snapshot of a production of Oscar Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Earnest.' Photographer: Unknown
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Contained in envelope with label reading: 'Enlargements of a few of the TINY photographs of original production of 'Importance of Being Earnest.' Collection of Edy Craig. Taken by Princeton at time of 1890 Exhibition. February 1966.'
Enlarged photographic copy from a small snapshot of a production of Oscar Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Earnest.' Photographer: Unknown
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Contained in envelope with label reading: 'Enlargements of a few of the TINY photographs of original production of 'Importance of Being Earnest.' Collection of Edy Craig. Taken by Princeton at time of 1890 Exhibition. February 1966.'
[Snapshot of Oscar Wilde in Rome.] Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length snapshot portrait in right profile, showing a portly Oscar Wilde, wearing an overcoat and bowler hat, standing in a square in Rome.
Eccles Bequest. Volume CLXVIII. Photograph of Hotel d'Alsace, where Oscar Wilde died. Photographer(s): Unknown
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One gelatin silver print, in modern window mount, showing the exterior of the Hotel d'Alsace, Paris, where Oscar Wilde died in 1900. With wet stamp name and address (possibly of the photographer?) on the reverse, reading, 'C. Millard, The Bungalow, 8 Abercorn Place, London, N.W.8.' An additional...
Portrait of Lord Alfred Douglas, taken in Cairo. Photographer: Unknown
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Inscription: Inscribed in ink on paper mount: 'Alfred Douglas (aged 23). In opem me copia fecit.' Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length portrait of Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (1870-1945), poet and companion of Oscar Wilde, seen seated at a table in half-right profile. The paper mount...
Portrait of 'John Strange Winter' (Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Palmer). Photographer: Barraud, Herbert Rose
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Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders right profile portrait of the author and journalist Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard (1856-1911), née Palmer, one of whose pseudonyms was John Strange Winter. Portrait, with accompanying biographical letterpress, extracted from volume 3 of 'Men and...