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The Billet-Doux

Print
1901 (made)
Artist/Maker

Plate 96 to The Later Work of Aubrey Beardsley (John Lane The Bodley Head, London), 1901. The Billet-Doux, headpiece to the first canto of The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope, published by Leonard Smithers, London, 1896.


Object details

Object type
Titles
  • The Billet-Doux
  • Sketches and prints
Materials and techniques
Line block
Brief description
Plate 96 to The Later Work of Aubrey Beardsley (John Lane The Bodley Head, London), 1901. The Billet-Doux, headpiece to the first canto of The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope, published by Leonard Smithers, London, 1896.
Physical description
Plate 96 to The Later Work of Aubrey Beardsley (John Lane The Bodley Head, London), 1901. The Billet-Doux, headpiece to the first canto of The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope, published by Leonard Smithers, London, 1896.
Dimensions
  • Image height: 109mm
  • Image width: 108mm
  • Platemark height: 134mm
  • Platemark width: 127mm
  • Sheet height: 286mm
  • Sheet width: 223mm
Measurements: 11 x 10.8 cm
Credit line
The Lady Bettine Abingdon Collection. Bequeathed by Mrs T. R. P. Hole.
Associated object
E.436-1899 (Duplicate)
Collection
Accession number
E.752-1987

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Record createdJuly 27, 2000
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