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Art Nouveau style ink drawing of multiple figures in a dreamscape.

Ink drawing of four figures in a fantastical environment, interspersed with various small demons or homunculi. A large winged creature in the bottom-right corner resembles a dragon with a single horn, scaly clawed foot, and long trailing beard. Details in the background include a cliff reflected in water, a portico, and a tree. Delicate tendrils weave throughout the image in abstract patterns, drawing the figures towards each other.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1986.666
People
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, British (Brighton, England 1872 - 1898 Menton, France)
Title
Dreams, for "Lucian's True History"
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1892-1893
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294687

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink, white gouache, and graphite on white wove paper
Dimensions
15.6 x 11.7 cm (6 1/8 x 4 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lr: white gouache, Beardsley's monogram

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Zatlin 271

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Scofield Thayer
Accession Year
1986
Object Number
1986.666
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Chris Snodgrass, Aubrey Beardsley: Dandy of the Grotesque, Oxford University Press (NY) and Oxford University Press (UK) (New York, NY and Oxford, England, 1995), fig. 4-7, pp. 178-180
  • 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. 1, no. 271, pp. 173-174, repr. p. 174

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 11/10/2015

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