Aubrey Beardsley Part 10

and was repeated together with expurgated versions or fragments from the remainder of the set in "Later Work."

144. THE RAPE OF THE LOCK, by Alexander Pope. An heroi-comical poem in five cantos, "embroidered with nine drawings by Aubrey Beardsley," 4to.

Leonard Smithers, 1896. Now published by John Lane. (Property of Messrs Keppel, New York.)

I. The Dream.

II. The Billet-Doux (vignette). Reproduced in _St Paul's_, April 2, 1898. (Property of Mrs Edmund Davis.)

III. The Toilet.

IV. The Baron's Prayer.

V. The Barge.

VI. The Rape of the Lock. (The property of Messrs Keppel, New York.)

VII. The Cave of Spleen.

VIII. The Battle of the Beaux and the Belles. Reproduced in the _Idler_, March 1897.

IX. The New Star (cul-de-lampe).

Cover design for the original edition.

Cover design for the Bijou edition. (John Lane.) Reproduced in "Later Work."

145. DESIGN FOR WRAPPER OF CATALOGUE OF RARE BOOKS, No. 7. (Leonard Smithers, 1896.) A lady seated on a striped settee reading; a parrot on stand on the right. Black on leaden-grey paper. Reproduced in "Second Book," 1896, and "Later Work."

146. THE PROSPECTUS OF THE SAVOY. DESIGN FOR.

I. A burlesque Cupid on a stage with footlights, one hand holding a copy of the book, whence it appears that the original intention was to produce the first number in December 1895. Reproduced in "Later Work." Latter part of 1895. (Property of John Lane, Esq.)

II. A suppressed variant of the above, same motif reversed, only with John Bull subst.i.tuted for the Cupid. Reproduced in "Later Work."

III. Initial letter A in the above Prospectus. Reproduced in "Later Work."

IV. Publisher's Trade-mark for Leonard Smithers. First published in "Savoy" Prospectus. The same, name omitted, appears in "Later Work" with the t.i.tle of "Siegfried," 1895.

THE SAVOY, No. 1, January 1896. (Leonard Smithers.)

V. Cover design, in two states. The original was suppressed because it depicted too realistically the contempt of the child in the foreground for the "Yellow Book," with which the artist had recently ceased to be connected. The revised version was republished in "Fifty Drawings," and again in "Later Work."

(Property of Mrs George Bealby Wright.)

VI. t.i.tle-page. Repeated as t.i.tle-page in No. 2, and republished in "Later Work."

VII. Drawing to face Contents. Caricature of John Bull. Republished in "Later Work."

VIII. The Three Musicians. Ill.u.s.tration of the artist's poem, same t.i.tle. Republished in "Fifty Drawings" and "Later Work."

IX. Another drawing to ill.u.s.trate the above, but withheld.

It appeared for the first time in "A Book of Fifty Drawings,"

1897. Republished in "Later Work" and "Under the Hill."

X. Tailpiece to the above. Republished in "Later Work" and "Under the Hill."

XI. The Bathers (on Dieppe Beach). Republished in "Fifty Drawings"

and "Later Work."

XII. The Moska. This subject was inspired by the children's dance at the Casino, Dieppe. Republished in the _Idler_ Magazine, March 1897, and again in "Later Work." (Property of Mrs Edmund Davis.)

XIII. The Abbe. This and the two designs which follow appeared as ill.u.s.trations to "Under the Hill," a romantic novel, by Aubrey Beardsley. Republished in "Later Work." All the ill.u.s.trations of "Under the Hill" reissued with text in a volume bearing same t.i.tle. John Lane, 1904.

XIV. The Toilet of Helen. Republished in "Fifty Drawings" and "Later Work."

XV. The Fruit Bearers. Republished in "Later Work."

XVI. A large Christmas Card, in black-and-white. Madonna, with fur-edged, richly-flowered mantle. Issued together with, but not bound in, the book. Republished in "Fifty Drawings" and "Later Work."

THE SAVOY. No. 2. April 1896.

XVII. Cover Design. Republished in "Later Work."

XVIII. A Foot-note. (Fancy portrait of the artist.) Republished, with omissions, in "Later Work." Also adapted in gold on scarlet for cloth cover of "Second Book."

XIX. The Ecstasy of Saint Rose of Lima. Ill.u.s.tration of "Under the Hill." Republished in "Fifty Drawings" and "Later Work."

XX. The Third Tableau of "Das Rheingold." Republished in "Fifty Drawings" and "Later Work."

Scene reproduced from "The Rape of the Lock."

THE SAVOY. No. 3. July 1896.

XXI. Cover Design. Republished in "Later Work."

XXII. t.i.tle-page. Puck on Pegasus. Repeated for the t.i.tle of all the succeeding numbers. Republished in "Later Work." Also, reduced, as design for t.i.tle-page of "Fifty Drawings," and in gold on scarlet for the under side of cloth cover of same.

XXIII. The Coiffing. This and the following design accompanied Aubrey Beardsley's "Ballad of a Barber." The Coiffing was republished in the _Idler_ Magazine, March 1897, and in "Fifty Drawings"

and "Later Work." (Property of Messrs Obach & Co.)

XXIV. A Cul-de-Lampe. Cupid carrying a gibbet. Republished in "Later Work."

THE SAVOY. No. 4. August 1896.

XXV. Cover Design. Republished in "Later Work."

THE SAVOY. No. 5. September 1896.

XXVI. Cover Design. (Signed, for a practical joke, Giulio Floriani.) Republished in "Fifty Drawings" and "Later Work."