Articles Tagged: Oscar Wilde

Newly Published Digital Collection: Al Székely Collection

Published: August 29, 2025

The Clark Library has a newly published digital collection! The Al Székely Collection is now available in UCLA Library Digital Collections and contains watercolors illustrating Wilde’s Dorian Gray. This set of 16 watercolor illustrations were created by artist Al Székely for Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. These illustrations were never previously published. Each…

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Extra, extra! See all about it: Extra-illustrated books at the Clark

Published: August 28, 2012

There are many elements that contribute to the value of a book as an object, encoding meaning outside of the text itself that can, nonetheless, be read. One artifactual element is illustration and, within the broad world of illustrated printed books, is a subset of copies that have had illustrations added to them after they…

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