Oscar Wilde 1880's Gilbert & Sullivan Patience Freckle Cure Victorian Trade Card for Sale

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Oscar Wilde 1880's Gilbert & Sullivan Patience Freckle Cure Victorian Trade Card:
$178.00

Oscar Wilde portrait, circa 1880's - "Neilson's Secret...." - Authentic Antique CardThis is NOT a BOOK... it is an important Oscar Wilde illustrated artifact for historians and serious collectors.
This Oscar Wilde Business Card Image - from Napoleon Sarony photo:
"Photos Number 2 & 6 to 9 - - The trousers were brown, the necktie was sky blue and he carrieda pair of kid gloves. Piped velvet doublet, turn-down collared shirt under the fur-trimmed coat.
Some photographs are in pairs taken as Wilde held his pose, only slightly changing position.His shirt has a turn-down collar - unusual for the era when detached band collars were common.
One of the photographs in this series shows Wilde holding a copy of his Poems (1881).
- John Cooper's documentation at: The Sarony Photographs of Oscar Wilde —1882 and 1883—
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Makeup used by Miss Adelaide Neilson ... "cannot be detected even under the brilliant glare of the Electric Light."Approx. 3 x 5.4 inches - Aesthetic Movement exploitation of physical appearance and social approval.
Condition: shows age with only minor flaws on illustrated portrait front; minor glue stain on reverse. Please study scans.
"Patience" Milkmaid Beauty Actress from Gilbert & Sullivan original stage production
- as played by Lillian Russell in 1882. Lithographed image as adapted from her studio photograph.More Oscar Wilde / "Dandy" / "Dude" cards - Search my store for related 19th Century cards.To See More of the BEST 19th Century Cards Click Here: (( MORE GREAT CARDS )) circa 140 Years Old - Antique 19th Century Card: Theater, Entertainment -related Business Advertising Card.
Oscar Wilde - Aesthetic Movement / Gilbert & Sullivan, "Patience" (Wikipedia)
-- Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in "one of the first celebrity trials", imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46.
-- As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art" and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French while in Paris, but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Undiscouraged, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London.
- Aestheticism was sufficiently in vogue to be caricatured by Gilbert and Sullivan in Patience (1881).
Richard D'Oyly Carte, an English impresario, invited Wilde to make a lecture tour of North America, simultaneously priming the pump for the US tour of Patience and selling this most charming aesthete to the American public. Wilde journeyed on the SS Arizona, arriving 2 January 1882, and disembarking the following day.
- Oscar Wilde's 1882 American Tour: Originally planned to last four months, Wilde's American tour continued for almost a year owing to its commercial success. Wilde sought to transpose the beauty he saw in art into daily life. This was a practical as well as philosophical project: in Oxford he had surrounded himself with blue china and lilies, and now one of his lectures was on interior design. In a British Library article on aestheticism and decadence, Carolyn Burdett writes, "Wilde teased his readers with the claim that life imitates art rather than the other way round. His point was a serious one: we notice London fogs, he argued, because art and literature has taught us to do so. Wilde, among others, 'performed' these maxims. He presented himself as the impeccably dressed and mannered dandy figure whose life was a work of art."
- When asked to explain reports that he had paraded down Piccadilly in London carrying a gay lily, long hair flowing, Wilde replied, "It's not whether I did it or not that's important, but whether people believed I did it".+ Over 1,000+ more fabulous antique & vintage cards are currently listed at the Dave Cheadle Card Store. To See More of the BEST 19th Century Cards Click Here: (( MORE GREAT CARDS ))+ Over 1,000+ more fabulous antique & vintage cards are currently listed at the Dave Cheadle Card * MORE GREAT pre-1900 - Theater, Entertainment / Bottle / Cure, etc. = use "Search store" Visit store: Click this Hot Link: Dave Cheadle Card Store - Displays with evidence of aging, flaws and wear, as seen in HUGE scans far above.
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