Oscar Wilde is on the right of this photograph. UPDATE: IT MADE 7,000
A previously unpublished photograph of a young Oscar Wilde comes up as lot 696 at the James Adam Country House Collections sale at Slane Castle on October 13. Contained in Lady Ardilaun’s photograph album it is part of a group photograph showing a house party at Ashford Castle, Co. Galway from October 4-12 in 1878. The oblong 1870’s photo album has a red morocco cover.
The young Oscar, clad in tweed plus fours, is seated on the right of the photo seated on the balustrading on the front steps. The 29 leave album album, containing numerous cartes-de-visite portraits, groups, houses and scenery, mostly annotated, Macroom Castle, Birr Castle, Muckross, Bantry, Ashford, Ross Hill, Lough Cutra, Castle Macgarrett, St. Anne’s, Howth, is estimated at 5,000-8,000.
UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 7,000