Bon-Mots Vignette
Drawing
1893
1893
| Artist/Maker |
Drawing by Aubrey Beardsley, vignette for p. 138 of Bon-Mots of Charles Lamb and Douglas Jerrold, ed. by Walter Jerrold and published by J. M. Dent and Co., London 1893. One of five original drawings bound into volume.
Object details
| Object type | |
| Title | <i>Bon-Mots</i> Vignette |
| Materials and techniques | Pen and ink |
| Brief description | Drawing by Aubrey Beardsley, vignette for p. 138 of Bon-Mots of Charles Lamb and Douglas Jerrold, ed. by Walter Jerrold and published by J. M. Dent and Co., London 1893. One of five original drawings bound into volume. |
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| Credit line | Purchased with Art Fund support |
| Object history | Provenance: R. A. Harari |
| Bibliographic reference | 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:
Masked Pierette in a Cape and a Ruff
Spring 1893
Victoria and Albert Museum, London (E.326-1972)
Pen and Indian ink with traces of pencil on white wove paper; 4 5/16 x 2 15/16 inches (110 x 75 mm).
IPROVENANCE: J. M Dent; …; R. A. Harari, by descent to Michael Harari; bt. Victoria and Albert Museum in 1972 with the aid of a contribution from the National Art Collections Fund.
LITERATURE: Vallance 1897 (p.206), 1909 (no. 65.IIi); Gallatin 1945 (nos. 645-771); Reade 1967 (pp. 330, n.228); Samuels Lasner 1995 (no.19).
REPRODUCED: ‘Bon-Mots of Charles Lamb and Douglas Jerrold’, edited by Walter Jerrold and published by J. M. Dent, December 1893 (p. 138); Reade 1967 (plate 227).
This grotesque Pierette wearing a half-mask or domino is reminiscent of Beardsley’s design for the headpiece of the ‘Stageland’ column in ‘To-day’, to which he contributed during three months of 1894, and it looks forward to the masked Pierrot-hair-dresser in ‘The Toilette of Salome’, first version (nos. 933 and 871 below). Here, however, the figure is a full-length nude thrust into view by its huge ruff and cape that is open in invitation or to display hanging breasts, broad hips and clearly outlined pudendum. The mask leads the eye to the breast-shapes in the hair and the coquettishly tilted head and pursed mouth. Research yielded no comment about this drawing. For further comment on the figure of Pierrot in Beardsley’s work, see no/ 262 above. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.326-1972 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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