Aubrey Beardsley Part 8

VIII. Bookplate (designed in 1893) for John Lumsden Propert, Esq.

Vol. II., July 1894. Elkin Mathews and John Lane.

IX. Design on front side of cover. (Property of John Lane, Esq.)

X. Design on t.i.tle-page.

XI. The Comedy-Ballet of Marionettes. Three designs.

XII. Garcons de Cafe. (Property of A. W. King, Esq.)

XIII. The Slippers of Cinderella. The artist subsequently coloured the original with scarlet and green, in which state it is unpublished.

(Property of Brandon Thomas, Esq.)

XIV. Portrait of Madame Rejane, full-length profile to left, in outline.

(Property of Frederick H. Evans, Esq.)

Volume III., October 1894. John Lane.

XV. Design on front side of cover. (Property of John Lane, Esq.)

XVI. Design on t.i.tle-page.

XVII. Portrait of Mantegna. Published, for a practical joke, in the name of Philip Broughton. (Property of G. Bernard Shaw, Esq.)

XVIII. Portrait of the artist; fancy portrait of himself in bed. (Property of John Lane, Esq.)

XIX. Lady Gold's Escort. (Property of Brandon Thomas, Esq.)

XX. The Wagnerites at the performance of "Tristan und Isolde."

Reproduced, on large scale, in _Le Courrier Francais_, December 23rd, 1894, with the t.i.tle "Wagneriens et Wagneriennes."

XXI. La Dame aux Camelias. Reprinted in _St Paul's_, April 2nd, 1894, with the t.i.tle "Girl at her Toilet." (Formerly the property of the late Miss K. Savile Clarke [Mrs Cyril Martineau].)

XXII. From a pastel; half-length study of a woman in white cap, facing to left. (Published, for a practical joke, in the name of Albert Foschter.)

Volume IV., January 1895. John Lane.

XXIII. Design, on front side of cover.

XXIV. Design on t.i.tle-page.

XXV. The Mysterious Rose Garden, burlesque Annunciation. (Property of John Lane, Esq.)

XXVI. The Repentance of Mrs ----. (The kneeling figure is a reminiscence of the princ.i.p.al one in "The Litany of Mary Magdalen.")

XXVII. Portrait of Miss Winifred Emery (outline). (Property of Mrs Cyril Maude.)

XXVIII. Frontispiece for Juvenal. Double-page supplement.

XXIX. Design for "Yellow Book" Cover, not used. First published in "Early Work." (Property of John Lane, Esq.)

x.x.x. Show-card to advertise "The Yellow Book"; female figure standing, her hat hanging from her right hand, and daffodils growing at her feet. Dark green on light yellow paper. Reproduced in black-and-white in "Early Work." (The property of John Lane, Esq.)

90. PORTRAIT OF ReJANE wearing a broad-brimmed hat with dark bow in front, head and shoulders, full face slightly to left, wash drawing.

Reproduced by Swan Electric Engraving Company for the "Yellow Book,"

but not used. Unpublished.

91. ReJANE, black-and-white design of the actress standing, half length, fan in hand, against a white curtain with conspicuous ta.s.sel. First published in "Second Book," and again, in a reduced state, as "t.i.tle-page ornament, hitherto unpublished" in "Early Work." 1893-4.

92. MADAME ReJANE, full-length portrait sketch, ink and wash. First published in "Second Book," again in "Later Work."

93. MADAME ReJANE, profile to left; sitting, legs extended, on a sofa, ink and wash. First published in "Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen,"

by Joseph Pennell (Macmillan, 1894), again in "Fifty Drawings," and in the _Idler_ Magazine, March 1897.

94. ReJANE, portrait head in profile to left, in red crayon and black ink, 7-1/2 6 inches. First published in facsimile in _The Studio_, May 1898, again in "Later Work." (Property of Frederick H. Evans, Esq.) 1894.

95. A POSTER DESIGN. Back view of a woman, her face in profile to right, holding a pigmy in her right hand. First published in "Early Work."

(Property of John Lane, Esq.)

96. A POSTER DESIGN (Singer). Woman seated at a piano. First reproduced in _The Poster_, October 1898, again in "Second Book" and in "Later Work."

97. LADY TO RIGHT GAZING AT A HAT ON A MILLINER'S BONNET STAND, headpiece for the "Idlers' Club" section in the _Idler_ Magazine, 1894.

98. PIERROT AND BLACK CAT, small square in black-and-white for a book ornament.

99. HEAD AND SHOULDERS OF A CHINESE PRIEST, together with the Head of a Satyr. 25 copies only printed on folio sheet, and 10 copies only in red. It is not known for what they were intended. Published by James Tregaskis, Caxton Head.

100. LES Pa.s.sADES, night scene, in pen-and-ink with ink wash, 10 5 inches. First published in _To-Day_, November 17, 1894, again in the _Idler_ Magazine, March 1897.

101. VENUS BETWEEN TERMINAL G.o.dS. Frontispiece for a version of the Tannhauser legend, to be published by Messrs H. Henry & Co. Ltd., a project never completed. Design in black-and-white, showing, especially in the treatment of flying dove and of the background of rose-trellis, the influence of Charles Ricketts or Laurence Housman. Reproduced in "Second Book," and again in "Later Work."

_Circa_ 1894-5.

102. FRONTISPIECE AND t.i.tLE-PAGE, together forming one complete design, for "The Story of Venus and Tannhauser," to be published by John Lane, but never completed. (_Cf._ "Under the Hill" in _The Savoy_, 1896.) Reproduced in "Early Work." Dated 1895. (Property of John Lane, Esq.)

103. THE RETURN OF TANNHaUSER TO VENUSBERG. A design originally intended for the above-named book. Subsequently presented by the artist to J. M. Dent, Esq. First published, in ill.u.s.tration of an article by Max Beerbohm, in the _Idler_ Magazine for May 1898, and again, in larger format and, as the initials in left hand corner show, reversed, in "Second Book" and again in "Later Work." The _Idler_ version has a slight effect of half-tone in the brambles in the foreground, but the "Later Work" reproduction is pure black-and-white contrast.

104. VENUS. Design for t.i.tle-page, in black-and-white. First published in _The Studio_, 1898, and afterwards in "Early Work," March 2, 1899, where it is described as "hitherto unpublished." (The property of John Lane, Esq.)

105. DESIGN FOR COVER OF "THE CAMBRIDGE A, B, C." Reproduced in "Early Work."

106. PIERROT AS CADDIE, Golf Club Card, designed for the opening of The Prince's Ladies' Golf Club, Mitcham, pen-and-ink. Published in "Early Work." (Formerly the property of Mrs Falconer-Stuart, now of R.

Hippesley c.o.x, Esq.) Dated 1894.

107. A POSTER DESIGN; two female figures drawn in black-and-white for Mr William Heinemann. Reproduced in "Early Work."

108. THE LONDON GARLAND, published by the Society of Ill.u.s.trators, 1895.

A pen-and-ink drawing of a female in very elaborated dress reaching from her neck to the ground, intended to represent a ballet-dancer with a costume as prescribed by Mrs Grundy. The original drawing, unfinished, contains another figure, not reproduced, on the left.

The original t.i.tle for this drawing was "At a Distance." Reproduced in "Second Book." (Property of Joseph Pennell, Esq.)