Download Oscar Wilde Grave Glass PNG. Admirers who have smothered oscar wilde's grave with kisses will no longer be able to get so close to the stone memorial as lipstick marks are eroding it. Epstein's tomb of oscar wilde after cleaning and installation of glass panels, march 2012 (photographs by the author).

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Writer's grandson among those present at unveiling on 111th. It took nine to ten months to complete by the sculptor jacob epstein, with an accompanying plinth by charles holden and an inscription carved by joseph cribb. Well, not exactly famous, notorious is probably.

So this is what it looks like with the glass shielding?

Wilde's grave in paris has been restored after decades of unusual lipstick tributes. The tomb was designed by modernist sculptor jacob epstein and. Work was carried out on the gravestone because it was covered in lipstick marks left by tourists, which were gradually destroying it. Yesterday, 111 years to the day of his death in a paris hotel at the age of 46, wilde was given sanctuary from those who claim to love him.