The federal trial court for the Southern District of New York, though expressing some doubt over the constitutionality of § 4952, declined to invalidate it and awarded a $ 610 judgment to Sarony ( the equivalent of just over $ 12, 000 in 2005 ).

Sarony sued Burrow-Giles after it used unauthorized lithographs of Oscar Wilde No. 18 in an advertisement, and won a judgment for $ 610 ( the modern equivalent of just over $ 12, 000 ) that was affirmed on appeal by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court.

He worked as an illustrator for Currier and Ives before joining with James Major and starting his own lithography business, Sarony & Major, in 1843.

Sarony left the firm in 1867 and established a photography studio at 37 Union Square, during a time when celebrity portraiture was a popular fad .< ref name =" Sarony Studio "> </ span ></ font ></ ref > Photographers would pay their famous subjects to sit for them, and then retain full rights to sell the pictures.

In 1884, Sarony was a participant in an April Fool's joke played on Clemens when George Washington Cable arranged for 150 of Clemens's friends to write to him simultaneously, requesting his autograph.

That same year 1872 Herbert sat for his first posed theatrical photographic portrait by noted photographer Oliver Sarony, an older brother of the better remembered Napoleon Sarony.

The trial court had found that Sarony had posed Wilde in front of the camera and suggested his expression, and selected his costume, the background and accessories to create a particular composition of line and light.

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Major in Sarony & Major and it continued operating under that name until 1853.

* article and rare pictures of Mark Twain and photographer Napoleon Sarony

Sarony took numerous photographs of Samuel Clemens ( Mark Twain ).

Photograph of Nast by Napoleon Sarony, taken in Union Square ( New York City ) | Union Square, New York City

1888 photograph by Napoleon Sarony used in the second edition of Sherman's Memoirs, 1889.

The engraving was modeled after a photograph taken by Napoleon Sarony in 1888.

James M. Ives, photographed by Napoleon Sarony

Anthony Trollope by Napoleon Sarony

The subject of the lawsuit: Oscar Wilde No. 18 by Napoleon Sarony ( 1882 )

Famed photographer Napoleon Sarony filed a copyright infringement suit against the Burrow-Giles Lithographic Company, which had marketed unauthorized lithographs of Sarony's photograph of writer Oscar Wilde, entitled " Oscar Wilde No. 18.

Napoleon Sarony, self-portrait

Napoleon Sarony ( 1821 – November 9, 1896 ) was an American lithographer and photographer.

Coquelin photographed by the United States | American Napoleon Sarony c. 1888.

Photo by Napoleon Sarony.

Photograph by Napoleon Sarony, New York, early January 1882.

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