Illustration for the cover of The Savoy magazine with a woman and a mischievous cherub strolling through a park.
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In this cover design for The Savoy magazine, the publication title runs across the top of the sheet, set in all capital letters in a serif font. Below the title is an illustration of a young woman strolling through a park, accompanied by a small cherub carrying a staff. She is wearing a long coat and gloves, and holds a whip in her right hand. The cherub is also wearing a long coat, but as he takes a step forward, he pulls it back to reveal his nude frontside.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.629
People
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, British (Brighton, England 1872 - 1898 Menton, France)
Title
Cover for "The Savoy," issue no. 1
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1895
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297891

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and graphite on white wove paper, laid down
Dimensions
30.5 x 23 cm (12 x 9 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, l.r.: Aubrey Beardsley. 1896

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Zatlin 991

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.629
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Blake to Beardsley: A Century of English Illustrators, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 5
  • Milly Heyd, Aubrey Beardsley: symbol, mask, and self-irony, Peter Lang (New York, NY, 1986), pp. 17-18, repr. fig. 2
  • Linda Gertner Zatlin, Aubrey Beardsley and Victorian Sexual Politics, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1990), p. 127, fig. 79
  • 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. 1-3, p. 9
  • Lionel Lambourne, The Aesthetic Movement, Phaidon (London, England, 1996), repr. p. 219
  • Allison Pease, Modernism, Mass Culture, and the Aesthetics of Obscenity, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 2000), p. 112, repr. p. 113 as fig. 12
  • Alan Hollinghurst, "A Little Indecent" [review of Linda Gertner Zatlin, "Aubrey Beardsley: A Catalogue Raisonné"], Apollo (July/August 2016), pp. 104-105, repr. p. 105 as fig. 2
  • Linda Gertner Zatlin, Aubrey Beardsley: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2016), vol. 2, no. 991, pp. 244-246, repr. p. 246
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), p. 49, repr. p. 49 as fig. 7

Exhibition History

  • Blake to Beardsley: A Century of English Illustrators, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/1944 - 06/30/1944
  • Portrait, Prospect and Poetry: British Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Bequest, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/11/1993 - 11/07/1993

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