# Oscar Wilde - The Duchess of Padua

- By: Adam Cuerden
- Date: 1901
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: Complete Writings of Oscar Wilde \[Vol I\]: The Duchess of Padua - The Ideal Husband, The Nottingham Society, New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago. 1901. The artist is not credited.
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oscar_Wilde_-_The_Duchess_of_Padua.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/e/ef/Oscar_Wilde_-_The_Duchess_of_Padua.jpg/1920px-Oscar_Wilde_-_The_Duchess_of_Padua.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

"Alackaday! I am fallen so low in place. I can reward thee only with niggardly thanks." Restoration of an illustration to Oscar Wilde's The Duchess of Padua, by an uncredited American artist. There was a lot of random dirt and random ink spots (you can tell they\'re not part of the art as they were on the border too). Took a few hours, but wasn't too bad, on the whole - just lots of little stuff. Another of the things I've had sitting around half-finished for years.

I discovered there's almost no images for this play in existence, apparently (it is one of Wilde's most obscure works) so I thought I'd correct this. However, such research also showed that finding out the uncredited artist is unlikely, unfortunately.

Source:

The original image is, of course, out of copyright due to being an American work from before 1923.

Oh, yes: the grey cast to the image probably marks it as a photogravure. Those tend to be a little darker than the page itself, but have very fine gradients of shade.