A PLASTER IMPRESSION OF OSCAR WILDE'S LEFT HAND

20TH CENTURY, AFTER THE ORIGINAL IMPRESSION TAKEN BY PALMIST MRS. ROBINSON IN 1893

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A PLASTER IMPRESSION OF OSCAR WILDE'S LEFT HAND
20TH CENTURY, AFTER THE ORIGINAL IMPRESSION TAKEN BY PALMIST MRS. ROBINSON IN 1893
Framed and glazed; together with a print After Sir William Powell Frith, R.A., A Private View at the Royal Academy, 1881, engraving depicting Oscar Wilde, Disraeli, Henry Stacy Marks, Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, Lillie Langtry and Lord Leighton.
The hand: 10 x 12 in. (25.5 x 30.5 cm.)
The print: 37.1/2 x 22 in. (95 x 56 cm.)

Lot Essay

This plaster cast was taken from the original cast done in 1893 by the then renowned palmist and author of The Graven Palm, a manual of the science of Palmistry, Mrs. A. Robinson. The original cast was handed down to her son, Timothy G. Shore who in turn gave it to writer Sir Compton Mackenzie, OBE (1883-1972).

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