Oscar Wilde 1880s Gilbert & Sullivan Patience Bust Enlarger Victorian Trade Card
Oscar Wilde portrait, circa 1880's - "Bosom Beautifier" - Authentic Antique Card. Th is is NOT a BOOK...
But because many collectors and researchers seek wide-ranging antiquarian. Illustrated graphic material related to literary works and important stories, the Dave Cheadle Card Store is listing some GREAT 19th Century Trade Cards under the Antiquarian & Collectible Book category. Marie Fontaine's Bosom Beautifier. Deficient or lacking in that necessary development of the bust, so essential to a handsome figure. In both old and young ladies.
Where the bosoms have become soft and flaccid... Will restore them, rendering them firm and hard. Increases size and hardens the bosoms...."Neilson's Secret for the Complexion" pimple cure advertising on the Lillian Russell milk maid oak bucket. 3 x 5.4 inches - Aesthetic Movement exploitation of physical appearance and social approval. "Patience" Milkmaid Beauty Actress from Gilbert & Sullivan original stage production. As played by Lillian Russell in 1882. Lithographed image as adapted from her studio photograph.
Just as sure as the sun will rise tomorrow, just so sure will it enlarge and beautify the bosom. More Oscar Wilde / "Dandy" / "Dude" cards - Search my store for related 19th Century cards. Circa 140 Years Old - Antique 19th Century Card: Theater, Entertainment -related Business Advertising Card. Oscar Wilde - Aesthetic Movement / Gilbert & Sullivan, "Patience" (Wikipedia). Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in "one of the first celebrity trials", imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day.At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French while in Paris, but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Undiscouraged, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London.
Aestheticism was sufficiently in vogue to be caricatured by Gilbert and Sullivan in Patience (1881). Wilde journeyed on the SS Arizona, arriving 2 January 1882, and disembarking the following day. Oscar Wilde's 1882 American Tour: Originally planned to last four months, Wilde's American tour continued for almost a year owing to its commercial success. Wilde sought to transpose the beauty he saw in art into daily life. This was a practical as well as philosophical project: in Oxford he had surrounded himself with blue china and lilies, and now one of his lectures was on interior design. In a British Library article on aestheticism and decadence, Carolyn Burdett writes, Wilde teased his readers with the claim that life imitates art rather than the other way round. His point was a serious one: we notice London fogs, he argued, because art and literature has taught us to do so.Wilde, among others,'performed' these maxims. He presented himself as the impeccably dressed and mannered dandy figure whose life was a work of art. " - When asked to explain reports that he had paraded down Piccadilly in London carrying a gay lily, long hair flowing, Wilde replied, "It's not whether I did it or not that's important, but whether people believed I did it. + Over 1,000+ more fabulous antique & vintage cards are currently listed at the Dave Cheadle Card Store.
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