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![Wilde (Oscar, [1854-1900]). The Aesthetic Waltz, Composed by W.A. McCloy, published by F.M. Hermick, Cincinnati, 1882, 8 pp.](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10729/2864356/22-20121129152120_468x382.jpg)
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Wilde (Oscar, [1854-1900]). The Aesthetic Waltz, Composed by W.A. McCloy, published by F.M. Hermick, Cincinnati, 1882, 8 pp. including decorative upper wrapper with a mounted head-and-shoulders albumen print portrait of Wilde [by Napoleon Sarony, New York], negative number `12` visible and sl. trimmed at lower margin, image size 15 x 10cm, minor creasing and soiling, slim folio (35.5 x 27cm). An extremely rare piece of Wildeiana, this cabinet-size photograph of Wilde is one of the best-known images of Wilde and one of twenty-seven taken by Sarony at the beginning of Wilde`s lecture tour of America in 1882. Wilde was keen to make a good reputation and in preparation for his lectures to Americans on aestheticism he bought some suitably aesthetic outfits, including the astrakhan coat seen in this photograph. The tour evidently made an impact on American composers as besides McCloy`s piano piece Aesthetic Waltzes were composed and published in the same year by Anton Strelezki (published New Orleans) and Frank D. Andrews (published New York). Wilde lectured at the Grand Opera House, Cincinnati, on the 23rd & 24th February and 6th June 1882, McCloy`s music no doubt inspired by one of these visits. (1)
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