The Mirror of Love
Drawing
1895 (made), 1898 (first published)
1895 (made), 1898 (first published)
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Portrait format drawing in black and white depicting a naked male angel, with wings both on his back and heels, surrounded by a large heart. This heart is the centrepiece to an ornate candelabra. Just above on each side, ornate bowls of fruit are depicted, with vines trailing down at each side of the heart.
Object details
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| Title | The Mirror of Love (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Drawing, pen and ink over traces of preliminary graphite on paper |
| Brief description | Drawing by Aubrey Beardsley, 'The Mirror of Love', design for the frontispiece illustrating the line 'Set in the heart as in a frame Love liveth' in the first of a collection of poems by Mark André Raffalovich, entitled 'The Thread and the Path', pen and ink and wash, published by David Nutt, London, 1895, but not used |
| Physical description | Portrait format drawing in black and white depicting a naked male angel, with wings both on his back and heels, surrounded by a large heart. This heart is the centrepiece to an ornate candelabra. Just above on each side, ornate bowls of fruit are depicted, with vines trailing down at each side of the heart. |
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| Credit line | Given by Canon Gray in memory of André Raffalovich. |
| Object history | According to Stephen Calloway in his book Aubrey Beardsley. London: V & A Publications, 1998, p. 129: 'Drawn as a frontispiece for Raffalovich's book of poems, The Thread and the Path, the design was rejected by the publisher David Nutt, owing to the hermaphrodite nature of the figure personifying Love.' |
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| Literary reference | 'The Thread and the Path' by Andre Raffalovich |
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| Accession number | E.1966-1934 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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