BIB_ID
309827
Accession number
MA 11471
Creator
Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896.
Published
New York, [1874]
Description
1 photographic print : b&w ; 144 x 98 mm; on card: 166 x 107 mm
Notes
Photograph is adhered to a black card with "Sarony 680 Broadway" printed at the foot in gold, and with a black ribbon tied in a bow threaded through the upper left corner.
This photograph was taken during Collins's 1874 visit to New York.
This photograph was taken during Collins's 1874 visit to New York.
Inscriptions/Markings
"Wilkie Collins 1874" signed on a slip of paper pasted to the verso of the card. Two unkown hands have added the notes "Novelists Height 5 ft 6 ins" and "American, 1873?" to the same slip of paper.
Summary
Full-length portrait of English novelist Wilkie Collins wearing a fur-lined coat and standing with one foot on a footrest next to a painting on an easel.
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