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The Stomach Dance

  • Object:

    Print

  • Place of origin:

    England, Great Britain (made)

  • Date:

    1907 (published)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent, born 1872 - died 1898 (artist)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    line block and half tone on Japanese vellum

  • Credit Line:

    Given by Michael Harari in memory of his father, Ralph A Harari.

  • Museum number:

    E.432-1972

  • Gallery location:

    Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C, case 2AI, shelf 19

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Place of Origin

England, Great Britain (made)

Date

1907 (published)

Artist/maker

Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent, born 1872 - died 1898 (artist)

Materials and Techniques

line block and half tone on Japanese vellum

Dimensions

Height: 223 mm image, Width: 162 mm image, Height: 343 mm sheet, Width: 273 mm sheet

Object history note

Print from a portfolio of Beardsley's drawings illustrating 'Salome' by Oscar Wilde. Second issue. Published by John Lane, London [1907]. With contents sheet in letterpress and 17 plates in a portfolio of grey-green paper boards, half bound in vellum, with green silk tapes, stamped in gold with title and the rose-bush motif from the 1894 edition. With the stamp of A. Land Buchhandlung Moskau inside the front cover.

Descriptive line

Beardsley, Aubrey: Plate XI from Salome (The Stomach Dance).

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

Howard Coutts Emile Gallé and the Origins of Art Nouveau The Bowes Museum, 2007.
Exhibition catalogue

Exhibition History

Drama and Desire: Art and Theatre from the French Revolution to the First World War (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto 19/06/2010-26/09/2010)
Emile Gallé and the Origins of Art Nouveau (The Bowes Museum 29/09/2007-20/01/2008)

Subjects depicted

Dancing

Collection code

PDP

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