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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1986.682
People
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, British (Brighton, England 1872 - 1898 Menton, France)
Title
How La Beale Isoud Nursed Sir Tristram; verso: sketch or pen scratchings
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Le Morte Darthur
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1893
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295060

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and graphite on off-white wove paper; verso: black ink
Dimensions
28.4 × 22.3 cm (11 3/16 × 8 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
J.M. Dent; Frederick H. Evans; sold through [Anderson Galleries, New York, March 20, 1919, lot 25]; to Scofield Thayer, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1986

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Zatlin 496

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Scofield Thayer
Accession Year
1986
Object Number
1986.682
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. 6-7, pp. 260-262
  • 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. 496r, pp. 309-311, repr. p. 310 (recto); no. 496v, p.311, repr. p. 311 (verso)
  • Stephen Calloway and Caroline Corbeau-Parsons, ed., Aubrey Beardsley, exh. cat., Tate Publishing (London, 2020), checklist no. 27, repr. p. 74

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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