Légende

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. From "Oscar Wilde and Myself". [London, 1898].

Date

1898

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A16_181

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,0Mo (2,4Mo) / 28,4cm x 44,1cm / 3357 x 5203 (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 photogravure 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