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Ink drawing showing a man in a dark forest.

Ink drawing of a man standing in a dark forest, looking over his shoulder while facing the viewer. He wears loose, ragged clothing and shoes with pointed toes. A hatchet is tied around his waist with a strip of fabric. His facial features and the folds of his clothes are drawn with dotted lines, conveying a subtle sense of structure, in contrast to the solid weight of the figure’s outline. The background of the forest is dense with stippling and hatching, with areas of solid black on the ground plane, and between the trees.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1986.665
People
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, British (Brighton, England 1872 - 1898 Menton, France)
Title
Ali Baba in the Wood
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1896
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294724

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
24.6 x 17 cm (9 11/16 x 6 11/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Leonard Smithers. A. E. Gallatin, 1904. Dr. Robert von Erdberg, sold; to Scofield Thayer, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1986

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Zatlin 1056

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Scofield Thayer
Accession Year
1986
Object Number
1986.665
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Linda Gertner Zatlin, Aubrey Beardsley and Victorian Sexual Politics, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1990), p. 37, fig. 11
  • 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. 3-8, p. 135
  • 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. 1056, pp. 360-362, repr. p. 361
  • Stephen Calloway and Caroline Corbeau-Parsons, ed., Aubrey Beardsley, exh. cat., Tate Publishing (London, 2020), checklist no. 189, repr. p. 164

Exhibition History

  • Aubrey Beardsley, Tate Britain, London, 03/04/2020 - 09/20/2020; Musée d'Orsay, 10/12/2020 - 01/10/2021

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