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The New Coinage. Four designs which were not sent in for competition

Drawing
ca.1893 (made)
Artist/Maker
Aubrey Beardsley (artist)
Place of origin
London (made)

A drawing in black ink on white paper depicting a caricature of Whistler's signature.


Object details

Categories
Drawings
Illustration
Caricatures & Cartoons
Object type
Drawing
Titles
  • The New Coinage. Four designs which were not sent in for competition (series title)
  • Whistler (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Pen, Indian ink and graphite on paper
Paper
Ink
Graphite
Drawing
Brief description
Drawing by Aubrey Beardsley, caricature of James McNeill Whistler's signature, from a set of four caricatures entitled 'The New Coinage. Four designs which were not sent in for competition', drawings for an illustration on p.154 of 'The Pall Mall Budget', 9 February 1893, graphite, pen and Indian ink on paper, London, ca. 1893
Physical description
A drawing in black ink on white paper depicting a caricature of Whistler's signature.
Dimensions
  • Height: 13.2cm
  • Width: 12.6cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • (Inscribed in graphite with notes)
  • 'WHISTLER' (Inscribed in ink)
Credit line
Bequeathed by H. H. Harrod
Object history
Bequeathed by H. H. Harrod, 1948
Subject depicted
Monogram
Association
Whistler
Bibliographic references
  • Calloway, Stephen. Aubrey Beardsley. London: V & A Publications, 1998. 224pp, illus. ISBN: 1851772197.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design, and Department of Paintings, Accessions: 1948, Volume II, Henry Herbert Harrod Bequest, London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1957
  • Linda Gertner Zatlin, Aubrey Beardsley : a catalogue raisonne. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016] 2 volumes (xxxi, [1], 519, [1] pages; xi, [1], 547, [1] pages) : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm. ISBN: 9780300111279 The entry is as follows: 276 The New Coinage: Whistler late January 1893 Victoria and Albert Museum, London (E.37-1948) Pen and Indian ink over pencil on off-white wove paper secured to backing with slotted hinges; 5 x 5 inches (127 x 127 mm). INSCRIPTIONS: Recto below left side of circle in ink inscribed by the artist: WHISTLER / [in pencil in another hand]: 1 ½ have by Monday at 6 / 10; verso in pencil: PMG / 8459 / 6 Monday / [in ink]: E.37-1948 / [stamp of]: V.A.M PROVENANCE: Herbert von Garvens; W. T. Spencer (bookseller); H. H. Harrod; bequeathed to Victoria and Albert Museum in 1948. EXHIBITION: London 1966-8 (159), Tokyo 1983 (3); Rome 1985 (18.4); London 2011-12 (162). LITERATURE: Vallance 1897 (p.203), 1909 (no.55.ii); Uncollected Work 1925 (p.xx); Gallatin 1945 (no. 249-52); Reade and Dickenson 1966-8 (no. 158-60); Reade 1967 (p.314 n.39); Samuels Lasner 1995 (no.8); Sturgis 1998a (p.127). REPRODUCED: Pall Mall Budget, 2 February 1893 (p.154); Early Work 1899 (no.141); Reade 1967 (plate 39). The design caricatures Whistler’s ‘butterfly’ signature to indicate ‘the strength of his conceit’ (Sturgis 1998a, p.127). It shows as well his importance to Beardsley. For further comment, see 274 and 275 above.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.37-1948

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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