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Sir Charles Villiers Stanford

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

A drawing in black ink on white paper depicting a profile portrait of a man with a moustache wearing round spectacles, a hat, and a fur trim around his neck.


Object details

Categories
Drawings
Portraits
Music
Theatre
Object type
Drawing
Titles
  • Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (generic title)
  • The Composer (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Pen and Indian ink, and graphite on paper
Paper
Ink
Graphite
Drawing
Brief description
Drawing by Aubrey Beardsley, a portrait sketch of C. V. Stanford, who composed the music for the production of Tennyson's 'Becket' produced by Sir Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre, London, 6 February 1893, pen and Indian ink and graphite, London, 1893
Physical description
A drawing in black ink on white paper depicting a profile portrait of a man with a moustache wearing round spectacles, a hat, and a fur trim around his neck.
Dimensions
  • Height: 17.4cm
  • Width: 11.6cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'AB' (Signed in ink)
  • 'THE COMPOSER' (Inscribed in ink)
  • (Inscribed in graphite with notes)
Credit line
Bequeathed by H. H. Harrod
Object history
Bequeathed by H. H. Harrod, 1948
Subjects depicted
Portrait
Stanford
Associated object
E.471-1899 (Reproduction)
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: 287 The Composer (Sir Charles Villiers Stanford) Early February 1893 Victoria and Albert Museum, London (E.35-1948) Pen and Indian ink over pencil on white wove paper; 6 3/4 x 4 ⅜ inches (171 x 112 mm); signed. INSCRIPTIONS: Recto inscribed by the artist in ink: [monogram in cursive at centre bottom]: A V B / [at bottom right]: THE COMPOSER / [in pencil in another hand]: 2 have by / Monday night 6 / 3; Verso in pencil: Professor Villiers Standford / P.M.G. / 8496 / E.35-1948 PROVENANCE: G. R. Halkett; bt. R. A. Walker in 1913; bt Herbert von Garvens; …; H. H. Harrod; bequeathed to Victoria and Albert Museum in 1948. EXHIBITION: London 1966-8 (154) LITERATURE: Vallance 1897 (p.203), 1909 (no.55.iii.8); Gallatin 1945 (no. 260); Reade 1967 (p.314 n.45); Samuels Lasner 1995 (no.9) REPRODUCED: Pall Mall Budget 9 February 1893 (p. 190); Early Work 1899 (no.144); Reade 1967 (plate 44). This drawing is one of eight that Beardsley made for the Pall Mall Budget to illustrate a review of Tennyson’s Beckett (1879), which opened at the Lyceum Theatre, London, on 6 February 1893. Villiers Stanford composed the incidental music for the play. For further comment on Beardsley’s drawings for the Pall Mall Budget, see no. 274 above.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.35-1948

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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