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Oscar Wilde appears in a suit with a carnation in his lapel. This image is a close up of his face looking rather garish, with his mouth showing crooked teeth in a smile and with his neck pressed down to show several chins.

Item 18: Oscar Wilde (ca. 1895-1900)
A ghostlike Oscar Wilde with an elongated face is pictured in a suit jacket and floppy bowtie, holding a cigarette aloft in his right hand with the smoke spiraling up above his head.
© The Estate of Sir Max Beerbohm. Courtesy Berlin Associates.

Item 19. Oscar Wilde. Graphite with erasing and scraping, undated

Oscar Wilde and His Circle (Items 18-24)

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  • A ghostlike Oscar Wilde with an elongated face is pictured in a suit jacket and floppy bowtie, holding a cigarette aloft in his right hand with the smoke spiraling up above his head.

    Oscar Wilde and His Circle (Items 18-24) Introduction

  • Oscar Wilde appears in a suit with a carnation in his lapel. This image is a close up of his face looking rather garish, with his mouth showing crooked teeth in a smile and with his neck pressed down to show several chins.

    Item 18: Oscar Wilde (ca. 1895-1900)

  • A ghostlike Oscar Wilde with an elongated face is pictured in a suit jacket and floppy bowtie, holding a cigarette aloft in his right hand with the smoke spiraling up above his head.

    Item 19: Oscar Wilde (undated)

  • wide, nude man pictured from behind with his left arm playing with his large moustache. A skinny, spindly Shakespeare looks on in the foreground.

    Item 20: "Had Shakespeare Asked Me..." (1896)

  • Caricature of Lord Queensbury smoking

    Item 21: Lord Queensberry (1894)

  • Page of Peep Into the Past story, including a cartoon of Oscar Wilde

    Item 22: A Peep into the Past (ca. 1894)

  • A page from a book depicting some text and a large caricature of Oscar Wilde.

    Item 23: Limited Editions (1893)

  • A ghostlike Oscar Wilde with an elongated face is pictured in a suit jacket and floppy bowtie, holding a cigarette aloft in his right hand with the smoke spiraling up above his head.

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