Detail from the frontispiece to A. H. Church’s Precious Stones, one of the South Kensington Museum Art Handbooks which Wilde plundered for the descriptive lists in The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Featured on PDR in the essay On Oscar Wilde and Plagiarism
Celebrated for his innovative wit, Oscar Wilde and the notion of originality are common bedfellows. The pairing, however, is not without its complications. Joseph Bristow and Rebecca N. Mitchell explore the claims of plagiarism that dogged Wilde's career, particularly as regards his relationship with that other great figure of late-19th-century Decadence, the American painter James McNeill Whistler.
Also appearing in the essay…
Dichroism and Spectra of Precious Stones
Date
1905
From
Precious Stones
