Oscar Wilde 1880s Neilsons Secret Mm Marie Fontaine Freckle Cure Buffalo NY Card
Item History & Price
Authentic / Original 1880's Gilbert & Sullivan / Lillian Russell / Patience Theater Stage Play farce / Cosack, Buffalo, NY
Adelaide Neilson - - Antique Entertainment, Theater, Music, Stage -type Business Advertising Card
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NOTE: This lithographed card pict...ures
Oscar Wilde as depicted in a popular 19th century CDV studio photograph from the 1880's.
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Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian era partnership of librettist
W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900).
Together, they wrote fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which H.M.S. Pinafore,
The Pirates of Penzance, Ruddigore, Trial by Jury, Patience, and The Mikado are among the best known.
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======================================================================================NOTE: -This card reflects a general late-19th century American infatuation with "Oriental" art and culture.
Especially under the influence of the Aesthetic Movement (fueled by Oscar Wilde's lecture tour of America in 1882), Americans flocked to purchase and collect Chinese and Japanese imported (or imitated) "Fancy Goods" of all types. Wilde, the so-call "Apostle of Beauty, " inspired art for art's sake. At a time when America was rapidly transitioning from a rural society to a more sophisticated urban/industrial culture, tokens from the Far East became a litmus test for cultural "sophistication." Teas and imported bric-a-brac in the forms of everything from paper fans, parasols, and hanging lanterns to exotic bamboo screens and elephant bronzes were scattered about middle-class homes to instantly (and superficially) suggest a residence of "refined taste."
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Condition: - Displays with evidence of aging, flaws and wear, as seen in HUGE scans far above.
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Size: -- see ruler in the scans.
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