Title page from "Oscar Wilde and Myself" by Lord Alfred Douglas, 1914. 'with photogravure portrait of the author and thirteen other portraits and illustrations - also fac-simile letters'. The relationship between Irish playwright and author Wilde (1854-1900) and his younger lover, poet and journalist Lord Alfred Douglas (1870-1945), was the subject of a scandal and court case. Wilde was sent to prison for 'sodomy', and Douglas converted to Catholicism. [John Long, London, 1914]
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Title page from "Oscar Wilde and Myself" by Lord Alfred Douglas, 1914. 'with photogravure portrait of the author and thirteen other portraits and illustrations - also fac-simile letters'. The relationship between Irish playwright and author Wilde (1854-1900) and his younger lover, poet and journalist Lord Alfred Douglas (1870-1945), was the subject of a scandal and court case. Wilde was sent to prison for 'sodomy', and Douglas converted to Catholicism. [John Long, London, 1914]

Date

1914

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A16_204

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,0Mo (2,2Mo) / 27,1cm x 46,3cm / 3195 x 5467 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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