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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1986.683
People
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, British (Brighton, England 1872 - 1898 Menton, France)
Title
Cover
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Volpone
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1897
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295015

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
27.9 x 21.1 cm (11 x 8 5/16 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Zatlin 1079

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Scofield Thayer
Accession Year
1986
Object Number
1986.683
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. 5-6, p. 221
  • 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. 1079, pp. 398-399, repr. p. 398

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2130 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/14/2019 - 07/18/2019

Verification Level

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