1986.666: Dreams, for "Lucian's True History"
DrawingsInk 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
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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
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- 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
- Permissions
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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
Verification Level
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