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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1986.679
People
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, British (Brighton, England 1872 - 1898 Menton, France)
Title
Volpone Adoring His Treasure
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1898
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294710

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and graphite on white wove paper
Dimensions
29 × 20.4 cm (11 7/16 × 8 1/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Vienna], sold; to Scofield Thayer, 1922, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1986

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Scofield Thayer
Accession Year
1986
Object Number
1986.679
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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, pp. 451, 458, 459

Exhibition History

  • Something Terrible May Happen: The Works of Aubrey Beardsley and Edward “Ned” I.R. Jennings, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, 10/20/2023 - 03/10/2024

Verification Level

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