Image: Oscar Wilde Sarony

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Description: Albumen silver print. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gilman Collection, Purchase, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Gift, 2005. Accession Number: 2005.100.120. This photograph - n° 18 of the sery - "became the subject of a copyright infringement suit by Sarony against the Burrow-Giles Lithographic Company, which had marketed unauthorized lithograph trade cards containing the image. The federal trial court for the Southern District of New York awarded a $610 judgment to Sarony (the equivalent today of over $13,000). The judgment was affirmed by the U.S. Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York, and subsequently by the Supreme Court of the United States" [1] (cf. Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony).
Title: Oscar Wilde Sarony
Credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Napoleon Sarony
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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