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The Coiffing

Print
1896 (made)
Artist/Maker
Beardsley (artist)
Place of origin
Britain (made)

Line block print from 'The Savoy', No. 3, July 1896. A male hairdresser with an elaborate quiff is depicted wearing a feminine apron and standing behind a young girl.


Object details

Category
Prints
Object type
Print
TitleThe Coiffing (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Line block print
Paper
Line Block
Brief description
Aubrey Beardsley, 'The Coiffing' from The Savoy, no.3, 1896.
Physical description
Line block print from 'The Savoy', No. 3, July 1896. A male hairdresser with an elaborate quiff is depicted wearing a feminine apron and standing behind a young girl.
Dimensions
  • Height: 18.5cm
  • Print width: 12.7cm
  • Height: 32cm
  • Green card mount width: 25.2cm
  • Height: 53.2cm
  • New mount (half imperial) width: 38cm
Object history
This is one of 200 prints made by different photo-process techniques (E.358 to E.556-1899) which are reproductions, chiefly proofs, of designs and illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. They were bought from Mrs A. Gleeson White, 21st January 1899, and had formed part of the collection of Joseph Gleeson White (1851-1898), art historian and first editor of 'The Studio' magazine.
Bibliographic reference
The following text is from Calloway, Stephen (2000). Aubrey Beardsley. London: V & A: 'Beardsley's illustration for his own poem 'The Ballad of a Barber', a carefully wrought and chilling little fable concerning a thirteen year old princess and a Sweeney Todd-like coiffeur who slits her throat with the jagged glass of a broken bottle of cologne, and then creeps away "on pointed feet"'.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.439-1899

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O901545/the-coiffing-print-beardsley/
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