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The Ballad of Reading Gaol by C.3.3., 1898. Title page of Oscar Wilde's "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" which he wrote while serving a sentence there. C33 was his prisoner number. Irish playwright and author Wilde (1854-1900) was imprisoned for homosexual acts after losing a criminal libel case. (London, 1898).

Date

1898

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A16_034

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50.0Mo (1.2Mo) / 27.3cm x 45.8cm / 3229 x 5411 (300dpi)

Mots clés

England library arts country law crime British English prison text location Victorian century imprisonment Britain imprisoned literature concept grief sexuality sexual B&W homosexuality sorrow British Library lettering grieving penitentiary 19th century poem poetry black & white black and white B W nineteenth century Reading Gaol English literature Unknown Oscar Wilde Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde Smithers Leonard Oscar Heritage Art 19th-century Leonard Smithers Leonard Charles Smithers The Ballad of Reading Gaol Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wills Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wills Wilde Leonard Cha