Box Wildeiana 28
Container
Contains 93 Results:
Jumbo Aesthetic, trade card for Clarkâs O.N.T. Spool Cotton, 1882
Item — Box: Wildeiana 28, Folder: 48
Identifier: Subseries 2.3.
Scope and Contents
Trade card showing a tiny Oscar Wilde next to a standing Jumbo the elephant, who has a large sunflower on his chest. In 1882, both Wilde and Jumbo toured the US (the latter with P.T. Barnum's circus).
Dates:
1882
"Oh! Oscar," trade card J. & P. Coats spool cotton, about 1882?
Item — Box: Wildeiana 28, Folder: 49
Identifier: Subseries 2.3.
Scope and Contents
Lithographic trade card showing a boy in an aesthetic outfit, holding an armful of lilies and sunflowers, toppling backwards off a giant spool of thread that is being pulled by a dog who is chasing a bird. Clark Library purchase, 2000 (accession MS.2000.007).
Dates:
about 1882?
Beard, W. H. (William Holbrook), 1824-1900, Painting of a monkey in aesthetic dress, gazing at a sunflower (reproduction from The Old Print Shop Portfolio), 1954
Item — Box: Wildeiana 28, Folder: 50
Identifier: Subseries 2.3.
Scope and Contents
Clipped page from The Old Print Shop Portfolio, Volume XIII No. 5 (January 1954), showing a black and white reproduction of an 1881 painting by W.H. Beard.
Dates:
1954