1986.678: "Alberich" for Wagner's "Das Reingold"

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1986.678

People

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, British (Brighton, England 1872 - 1898 Menton, France)

Title

"Alberich" for Wagner's "Das Reingold"

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1896

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/295101

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink on white wove paper

Dimensions

8.4 x 8.4 cm (3 5/16 x 3 5/16 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

Zatlin 1025

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Scofield Thayer

Accession Year

1986

Object Number

1986.678

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Emma Sutton, Aubrey Beardsley and British Wagernism in the 1890s, Oxford University Press (UK) (Oxford, 2002), pp. 182-184, fig. 11
• Rachel Sloan, "The Condition of Music: Wagnerism and Printmaking in France and Britain", Art History, Blackwell Publishers (Oxford, June 2009), vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 545-577, p. 567, repr. in b/w p. 568 as fig. 13
• Jill Fell, Alfred Jarry, Reaktion Books (London, 2010)
• 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. 1025, pp. 298-300, repr. p. 298

Exhibition History

• 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/11/2015 - 05/10/2015

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