He wowed the world with a story about a mysterious old portrait.
And now Oscar Wilde is himself at the centre of a fascinating tale about a picture – after a photo from his Oxford days was discovered.
The picture of the playwright among his fellow students, wearing suits and either boaters, boards or bowler hats, in the Cloisters of Magdalen College during 1876, was discovered in a Victorian photo album.
Wilde arrived as an undergraduate in 1874 and graduated four years later.
After this, the Irish author would go on to become a literary giant of the late 19th and early 20th centuries,
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