1986.676: John Bull, Contents Page, "The Savoy"
DrawingsThe ink drawing depicts a portly figure holding a quill and a double-sided pencil that are half his height. He wears a large cape with two ornamental flourishes at the outside corners, and an inside lining with a dotted pattern. At his neck and left wrist are large corsages, and his top hat and boots are decorated with wings. A dog’s face and paw appear in the bottom left corner. Floral wreaths with bows stretch across the bottom of the background. Marked in faint graphite around the figure is area for the magazine’s title “THE SAVOY” and other lettering.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1986.676
- People
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Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, British (Brighton, England 1872 - 1898 Menton, France)
- Title
- John Bull, Contents Page, "The Savoy"
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1895
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/295039
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black ink and graphite on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 23.3 x 18.1 cm (9 3/16 x 7 1/8 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Leonard Smithers. Fritz Waerndorfer(?); Lily Waerndorfer by 1911(?). [Paul Graupe, Berlin], 1918. [Gilhofer and Ranschburg, Vienna]. [Martin Birnbaum], sold 1924; to Scofield Thayer, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1986
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Zatlin 993
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Scofield Thayer
- Accession Year
- 1986
- Object Number
- 1986.676
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Linda Gertner Zatlin, Aubrey Beardsley and Victorian Sexual Politics, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1990), p. 43, fig. 15
- James Dempsey, The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer, University Press of Florida (Gainesville, FL, 2014), pp. 58, 186
- Linda Gertner Zatlin, Aubrey Beardsley: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2016), vol. 2, no. 993, pp. 246, 248-249, repr. p. 248
- Stephen Calloway and Caroline Corbeau-Parsons, ed., Aubrey Beardsley, exh. cat., Tate Publishing (London, 2020), checklist no. 151, repr. p. 140
Exhibition History
- Aubrey Beardsley, Tate Britain, London, 03/04/2020 - 09/20/2020; Musée d'Orsay, 10/12/2020 - 01/10/2021
Verification Level
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