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Print
1899 (made)
Artist/Maker
Swan Electric Engraving (printers)
Bodley Head (publisher)
Aubrey Beardsley (maker)
Place of origin
Great Britain (made)

A print depicting a stylised leaf design.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Books
Object type
Print
Title
Materials and techniques
Line-block
Paper
Line-Block
Brief description
Reproduction of a design by Aubrey Beardsley for the title page of At the Relton Arms by Evelyn Sharp, line-block, 1899
Physical description
A print depicting a stylised leaf design.
Dimensions
  • Size of sheet height: 27.9cm
  • Size of sheet width: 20.8cm
  • Size of image height: 14.9cm
  • Size of image width: 8.8cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1996
Object history
This print is illustration no. 109 taken from a copy of The early work of Aubrey Beardsley with a prefatory note by H.C. Marillier, The Bodley Head, London - New York, 1899. Only 120 copies were published in this Japanese vellum edition. At the Relton Arms is a novel by Evelyn Sharp, volume XIII in the Keynotes series and first published in 1895.
Subjects depicted
Leaf
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1996
  • Beardsley, Aubrey and H. C. Marillier. The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley. London - New York: The Bodley Head, 1899. no. 109
  • Sharp, Evelyn. At the Relton Arms. London: John Lane, 1895.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.34-1996

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Record createdApril 20, 2009
Record URL
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