Announcement for Oscar Wilde’s lecture “Art Decoration,” 10 May 1882 at Association Hall, Philadelphia, [New York, 1882]. EMs 1283/3

Click image for full size. This advertisement was intended to attract a mostly female audience to Wilde’s second lecture in Philadelphia after his first lecture in January left its audience somewhat disappointed. Despite the romanticized portrait and the afternoon lecture time, the lecture hall did not fill.

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