Historical Portrait
[Lillie Langtry, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]
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1 photographic print on cabinet card.
About this photograph
The Library of Congress holds a cabinet card portrait of Lillie Langtry by Napoleon Sarony, dated 1887. The photograph shows a head-and-shoulders composition with the subject facing left.
The archive record provides only these basic details. No further information about Langtry, her career, or the circumstances of this sitting has been documented for this photograph. The context surrounding Sarony's work with this subject similarly remains unrecorded here.
Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.
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