Illustration of a woman and a faun among overgrown flowering vines, with a blank rectangle for inset text.
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

In this fanciful black ink and graphite illustration, a tall woman in a full-length white gown stands alongside a giant lit candle. To her right, a winged faun with a black facemask is crouched on the ground. Both figures are enveloped by a mass of overgrown flowering vines, so even their hair appears to be made of a cluster of flowers. In the upper-right portion of the page is a blank rectangle for inset text to be added by the book printer.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.640
People
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, British (Brighton, England 1872 - 1898 Menton, France)
Title
Border Design for the List of Pictures
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Salome
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1893
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297892

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and graphite on white wove paper
Dimensions
24 x 19.7 cm (9 7/16 x 7 3/4 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Zatlin 865

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.640
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Joseph Pennell, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Original Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley, exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY, 1923), no. 23
  • Linda Gertner Zatlin, Aubrey Beardsley and Victorian Sexual Politics, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1990), pp. 113-114, fig. 70
  • 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. 2-12; pp. 63-65
  • Pierre Gascar, Le Cheveu Essentiellement, Nathan/Delpire (Paris? France, 1998), detail repr. p. 22
  • Mark Samuels Lasner, "The Pursuit of the Rare: Three Early Beardsley Collectors", Gazette of the Grolier Club (2000), no. 51, p. 17, note 34
  • Chikashi Kitazaki and Mina Oya, ed., Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, 2002), cat. no. 48-2, repr. (color)
  • Linda Gertner Zatlin, Aubrey Beardsley: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2016), vol. 2, no. 865, p. 19, pp. 6, 10, 11, 13, 32, repr. p. 20

Exhibition History

  • An Exhibition of Original Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley, Brooklyn Museum, 12/19/1923 - 01/31/1924; Milwaukee Art Institute, 10/01/1924 - 10/30/1924; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, 11/01/1924 - 11/30/1924; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, 11/29/1924 - 12/31/1924
  • Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 09/14/2002 - 12/08/2002
  • 32Q: 2130 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/14/2019 - 07/18/2019

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