Photographs of Oscar Wilde and His Circle
at the Clark Library

These pages show all original photographs of Wilde and his circle owned by the Library. Not included are lithograph reproductions, artists' portraits, caricatures, &c.

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Clark accession number: BX-2N.2.2a
Photographer: unknown
Place: unknown
Date: ca. 1858
11.4 x 8.6 cm. (mount 15.1 x 11.2 cm.)

Note on verso of mount: "Oscar Wilde as a child. From a miniature belonging to Robert Ross. Please return this photograph to C.S. Millard ..."
A black-and-white copy of the hand-tinted original belonging to Merlin Holland.

Clark accession number: BX-2N.2.2b
Photographer: Metropolitan Photographic Company
Place: Dublin
Date: early 1860s
9.2 x 5.8 cm. (mount 10.3 x 6.2 cm.) [vignetted image is ca. 2 x 1.5 cm.]
Numbered on back in pen: 6016

Photographs of Wilde taken at Oxford, 1875-76 (separate page)

Clark accession number: BX-4N.5
Carte de visite
With an unidentified man
Photographer: W. Savage, Winchester
Place: Winchester?
Date: ca. 1875-1878 per Merlin Holland (based on Wilde's hairstyle and dress)
6.0 x 9.8 cm. (mount 6.2 x 10.4 cm.)

Clark accession number: BX-2N.2.10a
Photographer: Elliott & Fry, London
Place: London
Date: 19 March 1881?
15.2 x 10.0 cm. (mount 16.3 x 10.6 cm.)
In pencil on back: 19 March 1881
In pencil on original matte (since removed): 14 [corrected to 19] March 1881
Published: Oscar Wilde's Oxford Notebooks, frontis.

Another copy
Clark accession number: BX-2N.2.10b
14.5 x 10.4 cm. (mount 16.5 x 10.7 cm.)
Bought by Clark at Anderson Galleries sale 1818 (Rosenbach, agent), 8 March 1924

Clark accession number: BX-2N.2.15
Photographer: Elliott & Fry, London
Place: London
Date: 19 March 1881?
15.2 x 10.0 cm. (mount 16.3 x 10.6 cm.)
In pencil on back: 19 March 1881
In pencil on original matte (since removed): 19 [corrected to 14] March 1881

Clark accession number: BX-2N.1.6
Photographer: unknown
Place: unknown
Date: late 1881 (per Merlin Holland)
14.0 x 10.2 cm.
Evidently a copy; image of the embossed word "COPYRIGHT" at lower right

Clark accession number: BX-2N.1.1
Photographer: unknown
Place: unknown
Date: late 1881
13.9 x 10.2 cm.
Removed from matte frame on which Christopher Millard has written "22" in blue pencil.
Photographs of Wilde taken by Napoleon Sarony, New York, early Jan. 1882 (separate page)

Clark accession number: BX-2N.2.11
Photographer: Jabez Hughes & Mullins, Regina House, Ryde, Isle of Wight
Place: Isle of Wight
Dated on verso in pencil: 1885
13.9 x 9.9 cm. (mount 16.5 x 10.9 cm.)
Dated on verso in pencil: 1885
Signed by Wilde on the mount

Clark accession number: Wilde portfolio case mounted artworks 10 [formerly BX-2N.2.1]
Photographer: Debenham & Gould
Place: Bournemouth
Date: 1887
13.8 x 9.4 cm. (mount 16.4 x 10.6 cm.)
Numbered in pencil on back: 21876B
Removed from matte frame on which Christopher Millard has written "27" in blue pencil

Clark accession number: BX-2N.1.4
Photographer: Debenham & Gould
Place: Bournemouth
Date: 1887
13.6 x 9.3 cm. (mount 16.4 x 10.6 cm.)
Numbered in pencil on back: 21877
Removed from matte frame on which Christopher Millard has written "28" in blue pencil
Published: Wilde, Letters (ed. Hart-Davis), opposite p. 222

Clark accession number: BX-2N.2.16b
Photographer: Cameron Studio
Place: London
Date: 1889
23.6 x 17.8 cm. (mount 25.8 x 19.8 cm.)
Signed on image: To dear Arthur [Fish] from his friend Oscar Wilde.

Another copy (not shown)
Clark accession number: BX-2N.2.16a
Sepia image
12.7 x 18.7 cm. (mount 24.6 x 19.4 cm.)
Signed on image (cropped): Arthur Butt from his friend Oscar Wilde. '90.
In pencil on back of mount: Gift of Mrs. G.M. Millard
Photographs of Wilde taken by W. & D. Downey, London, May 1889 (separate page)

Photographs of Wilde taken by Alfred Ellis & Walery, London, March 1892? (separate page)

Photographs of Wilde with Lord Alfred Douglas, 1892-1893 (separate page)

Photographs of Wilde taken after release from Reading Gaol (1897-1900) (separate page)

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Photographs of Oscar Wilde's family

Photographs of Lord Alfred Douglas and others

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