Althea Gyles’s illustration for Oscar Wilde’s "Harlot’s House" (original) (raw)

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Althea Gyles

1904

Illustration for the one-volume publication of Oscar Wilde’s poem, “The Harlot’s House”

“Sometimes a clockwork puppet pressed A phantom lover to her breast,
Sometimes they seemed to try to sing.”

• Oscar Wilde (homepage)
• Text of “The Harlot’s House”
• Cover of the British Library copy

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