Aubrey Beardsley Part 3

XVII. Phedre (Act ii. scene 5). 3-7/8 3-1/2 inches. Pencil and colours.

First published in "Second Book," again in "Later Work."

XVIII. Manon Lescaut, three-quarter length, woman to left, with fan.

5-1/4 3-1/2 inches. Water-colour on grey paper. First published in "Second Book," again in "Later Work."

XIX. Beatrice Cenci. 6-1/8 2-3/4 inches. Pencil and sepia wash. First published in "Second Book," again in "Later Work."

Unless otherwise stated as above, the works in this collection are unpublished; all were executed 1889-90.

LATER WORK.

14. FRANCESCA DI RIMINI (Dante). Head in profile, to left; pencil.

First published in "Later Work."

15. DANTE AT THE COURT OF CAN GRANDE DELLA SCALA. Circular design, in pencil. (Property of Miss H. Glover.)

16. DANTE IN EXILE. Dante seated on the left, the words of the Sonnet inscribed on the right, with decorations recalling some design of William Blake's. Signed A.V.B. First published in "Later Work."

(Formerly the property of the late Hampden Gurney, Esq.)

17. "I SAW THREE SHIPS COME SAILING BY ON CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE MORNING."

Pencil. Designed as a Christmas card for the late Rev. Alfred Gurney.

Published in "Later Work." _c._ 1890-1.

18. HAIL MARY. Profile of a head to left. Pencil drawing, 4-1/2 5-1/4 inches. First published in _The Studio_, May 1898, again in "Early Work." (Property of Frederick H. Evans, Esq.) 1891.

19. HEAD, three-quarter face to right, with a Wreath of Grapes and Vine Leaves and background of tree trunks. Lead-pencil sketch 5-1/2 5-5/8 inches. Unpublished. (Property of John Lane, Esq.) _circa_ 1891.

20. THEL GATHERING THE LILY. Pen-and-ink with water-colour wash. (Formerly the property of Robert Ross, Esq.)

21. TWO FIGURES IN A GARRET, both seated, a woman haranguing a young man.

Ink and wash sketch, 3-1/4 4-1/8 inches. Published in "Early Work."

(Property of Frederick H. Evans, Esq.)

22. E. BURNE-JONES. Portrait sketch in pen-and-ink, with slight wash.

A memorandum of Aubrey Beardsley's first call on Sir Edward Burne-Jones, dated Sunday, 12th July 1891, and signed with monogram, A.V.B. Size, 6-3/4 4-1/8 inches. Eight copies only. Printed on India paper. Published by James Tregaskis, Caxton Head, High Holborn, in 1899. July 1891.

23. THE WITCH OF ATLAS. Pen-and-ink and water-colour wash. First reproduced (lacking ornamental border) in "Second Book," again in "Later Work."

(Formerly the property of Robert Ross, Esq.)

24. MOLIeRE. Blue water-colour wash. First published in "Later Work."

(Formerly the property of Robert Ross, Esq.)

25. DIE GoTTERDaMMERUNG. Decorative composition in white and Indian ink, influenced by Burne-Jones. First published in "Second Book," again in "Later Work." (Formerly the property of Robert Ross, Esq.)

26. SOLEIL COUCHANT. Decorative composition in Indian ink. (The motif of the central part was subsequently adapted for a vignette in the "Morte Darthur," Book II. chap. xii.) First published in "Later Work." (Formerly the property of the late Hampden Gurney, Esq.)

27. TANNHaUSER. Study for decorative composition, in Indian ink.

5-5/8 7-1/2 inches. First published in "Later Work." (Property of Dr Rowland Thurnam.) 1891.

28. WITHERED SPRING. Decorative composition in Indian ink. Catalogued in "Fifty Drawings" as "Lament of the Dying Year." (The motif of the central part was subsequently adapted for a vignette in the "Morte Darthur," Book I. chap. xii.) First published in "Later Work."

(Property of Dr Rowland Thurnam.)

29. I. PERSEUS. Pen-and-ink and light wash. Design for an upright panel, with standing nude figure, above it a frieze of smaller figures.

18 6-3/4 inches. First published in "Early Work." (Property of Frederick H. Evans, Esq.)

II. A pencil sketch of two figures, unfinished, on the reverse of the preceding. Published in "Early Work."

30. L'ABBe MOURET. Decorative design for frontispiece of Zola's "La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret." Ink and wash. First published in "Under the Hill."

John Lane. 1904. (Property of John Lane, Esq.)

31. HAMLET PATRIS PANEM SEQUITUR. Pencil drawing. Printed in red, as frontispiece to _The Bee_, the Magazine of the Blackburn Technical School, November 1891; reprinted, in black, in "Second Book," again in "Early Work." Latter part 1891.

32. PERSEUS AND THE MONSTRE. Pencil design, 5-1/2 7-1/2 inches. First appeared in ill.u.s.tration of an article ent.i.tled, "The Invention of Aubrey Beardsley," by Aymer Vallance, in _The Magazine of Art_, May 1898; again in "Early Work," (Property of Aymer Vallance, Esq.) 1891.

33. THE PROCESSION OF JEANNE D'ARC. Pencil outline, treatment inspired by Mantegna, 19-1/2 long by 6-1/2 inches high. First published in _Magazine of Art_, May 1898; again as double page in "Second Book"; again, reduced, in collotype, in "Early Work." (Property of Frederick H. Evans, Esq.) 1891-2.

A pen-and-ink version of the Procession, 30 inches long by 7 high, was made subsequently, about the Spring of 1892, for Robert Ross, Esq. Published in _The Studio_; see below.

34. THE LITANY OF MARY MAGDALEN. Pencil drawing. First published in "Second Book," again in "Later Work." (Formerly Property of More Adey, Esq.) 1892.

35. THE VIRGIN AND LILY. Madonna standing in front of a Renaissance niche and surrounded by Saints, among them St John Baptist kneeling.

Pencil outline. Reproduced in photogravure in "Later Work."

(Formerly the property of the late Rev. Alfred Gurney, afterwards in the possession of his son, the late Hampden Gurney, Esq.)

36. CHILDREN DECORATING A TERMINAL G.o.d. Pen-and-ink. (Formerly the property of M. Puvis de Chavannes.)

37. FRED BROWN, N.E.A.C. Pen-and-ink sketch of the art-master in studio.

Signed with monogram A.V.B. First published in "Under the Hill."

(Property of Miss Nellie Syrett.)

38. STUDY OF FIGURES, horizontal fragment from, containing five heads and parts of two more. Pencil. Published in "Under the Hill." (Property of Miss Nellie Syrett.)

39. PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST. Full face. Pen-and-ink. First published in "Second Book," again in "Later Work." (Presented by Robert Ross, Esq., to the British Museum.)

40. SIDONIA THE SORCERESS. A design to ill.u.s.trate Meinhold's Romance, representing Sidonia, not in religious habit, with the demon-cat, Chim. William Morris's criticism that the face of Sidonia was not pretty enough, and another suggested improvement on the part of a friend of Aubrey Beardsley's, induced him to try to better the picture by altering the hair. The result was so far from satisfactory that it is almost certain that the drawing was destroyed by the artist. First half of 1892.

41. LE DeBRIS D'UN POETE. Pen-and-ink. First published in "Aubrey Beardsley," by Arthur Symons (Sign of the Unicorn, London, 1898).

(Property of Andre Raffalovich, Esq.)

42. INCIPIT VITA NOVA. Chinese, white, and Indian ink on brown paper.

First published in "Second Book," again in "Later Work." (Property of Messrs Carfax & Co.) 1892.

43. HEAD OF AN ANGEL, in profile, to left, flaming heart held in left hand. Pencil, on a half-sheet of grey notepaper, signed with monogram A.V.B. 5-3/4 3-7/8 inches. First published in photogravure "Second Book," again in "Later Work"; also printed in 4-inch square form on card for private distribution, Christmas 1905. (Property of the artist's sister, Mrs George Bealby Wright [Miss Mabel Beardsley].) _c._ 1892.

44. ADORAMUS TE. Four angels in a circle (7 inches in diameter) playing musical instruments, pencil and coloured chalks. Signed A.V.B.

monogram. Designed as a Christmas card for the late Rev. Alfred Gurney. First published in photogravure in "Second Book," again in "Later Work." (Property of Mrs George Bealby Wright.)