"O.W." is published in Punch Magazine

In one of Punch's Fancy Portrait prints, cartoonist Edward Linley Sambourne depicts Oscar Wilde as a sunflower, a very popular symbol amongst the Aesthetes. Sambourne chose to include a quote from the Christy Minstrels, a blackface music group that was popular in the 1850s. This quote is followed by saying that Wilde's poetry is tame, emphasizing that he was more of a popular celebrity and less of an artist and poet.

 

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Sambourne, Edward Linley. "O.W.". Punch. 25 June 1881.

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25 Jun 1881

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