Oct 17, 2019 - Sale 2520

Sale 2520 - Lot 92

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
NAPOLEON SARONY (1821-1896)
Oscar Wilde. Albumen print, the image measuring 12x7 1/4 inches (30.5x18.4 cm.), the beveled and gilt-edged mount slightly larger, with Sarony's credit, the sitter's credit, copyright date, and location New York, printed on mount recto. 1882
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This portrait of Wilde became the subject of a United States Supreme Court case that established copyright protection for photographs , (Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony 111 U.S. 53, 1884).