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Double Take III

THE HILLS ARE ALIKE

Another match in the Hills & Saunders photographs of Oscar Wilde.

You will recall the article Double Take II which featured the Hills & Saunders photographs of Oscar Wilde and his fellow students taken at Magdalen College. In that article I identified five “pairs” of photographs alluding to the fact there are TWO similar versions of each photograph taken a few seconds apart [see Repeating Back below].

There was, however, another photograph for which I concluded there was no known counterpart.

Now, thanks to the astute eye and memory of fellow Wilde scholar Rob Marland, we can reveal a match for that photograph as well.

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Double Take II

The Hills & Saunders Photographs
of Oscar Wilde and Friends

The current exhibition of Oscar Wilde at Magdalen College prompts me to extend an idea begun last year in an article titled Double Take—in which I featured two similar photographs by Hills & Saunders of Oscar Wilde and his fellow students at Magdalen.

That article highlighted only one of the series; now we take a look at the other known examples.

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