- Place of origin:
England, Great Britain (printed)
- Date:
ca. 1900 (printed)
- Artist/Maker:
Evans, Frederick Henry, born 1853 - died 1943 (designer)
- Materials and Techniques:
Line-block
- Museum number:
E.2076-2004
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C, case MB2B, shelf SH70, box GG68G
This bookplate is one of several such designs made for his own use by the prominent London bookseller and amateur photographer Frederick Evans. It is based on a design for a chapter heading drawn by Aubrey Beardsley for his illustrated edition of the Sir Thomas Malory's 'Morte D'Arthur', published in 1893. It was Evans who first befriended the young Beardsley and secured for him the commission to do the book. Evans and Beardsley remained close friends and the most celebrated photographic portrait of the artist is the one taken by Evans. This bookplate forms an interesting link between two key figures of the 1890s.
