Lady Gold's Escort
Print
1894 (made)
1894 (made)
| Artist/Maker |
An older woman in opulent clothing is shown with nine men accompanying her to the Lyceum Theatre. The columns of the building's facade are in the background.
Object details
| Categories | |
| Object type | |
| Title | Lady Gold's Escort |
| Materials and techniques | Line block print |
| Brief description | 'Lady Gold's Escort' illustration by Aubrey Beardsley for 'The Yellow Book' vol III, October 1894 |
| Physical description | An older woman in opulent clothing is shown with nine men accompanying her to the Lyceum Theatre. The columns of the building's facade are in the background. |
| Style | |
| Bibliographic reference | The following excerpt is from p. 105 of Aubrey Beardsley: A Catalogue Raisonné, Volume II, Linda Gertner Zatlin, Yale University Press, 2016:
'Brandon Thomas, the original owner of the drawing [of which this is a reproduction print] identified Lady Gold as the Baroness Burdett-Coutts....The heiress to Coutts Bank and a vast fortune, Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906) was a generous philanthropist who gave more than £3 million to good causes before her death; she was the first woman to be created a Baroness in her own right....But to identify the figure of the woman in Beardsley's drawing as the philanthropist is baffling. Ultimately one cannot draw any conclusion from Lady Gold's identity in the world beyond the drawing other than that she was a magnet for hangers-on and they are, as indicated by the title, Beardsley's subject in this drawing'. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.22199 |
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| Record created | August 18, 2015 |
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