Etched portrait of Oscar Wilde with a young boy. IE TCD MS 11437/2/3/1

Etched portrait of Oscar Wilde with a young boy, probably the artist’s son, by James Edward Kelly. Commissioned by Wilde in New York in January 1882, and autographed in pencil by Oscar Wilde. Ex collection Richard Ellman (plate 33 in his biography, 1987). Julia Rosenthal item no. 67. Mounted and framed, 50.8 x 45.7 cm.