The Lady with the Monkey
Print
1890s (made)
1890s (made)
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Drawing showing an elaborately dressed, but bare chested, woman with a feathered turban. She has a monkey on a leash. The monkey wears a suit and holds a hat. Tasselled curtains and a heavily ornamented flower stand are in the background.
Object details
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| Title | The Lady with the Monkey (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Photogravure print |
| Brief description | Aubrey Beardsley, 'The Lady with the Monkey', one of six illustrations for Theophile Gautier's 'Mademoiselle de Maupin', published in a portfolio edition of 50 by Leonard Smithers. Britain, 1898. |
| Physical description | Drawing showing an elaborately dressed, but bare chested, woman with a feathered turban. She has a monkey on a leash. The monkey wears a suit and holds a hat. Tasselled curtains and a heavily ornamented flower stand are in the background. |
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| Production type | Mass produced |
| Credit line | Given by Michael Harari, in memory of his father, Ralph A. Harari |
| Object history | The last plate in the series 'Six Drawings illustrating Théophile Gautier's Romance Mademoiselle de Maupin by Aubrey Beardsley', published by Leonard Smithers, London 1898. This drawing was originally intended as an illustration to 'Ben Johnson, his Volpone: or the Foxe', published by Smithers in the same year. E.416 to 421-1972: From a portfolio of photograuvres from an uncompleted set of illustrations, issued in an edition of 50, with a folio letterpress comprising title-page printed in black and red, colophon and list of plates, in greenish-grey paper boards, half bound in green-blue cloth with greenish-black tapes. The colophon numbered in ink '13' and signed 'L.S. & Co.' |
| Literary reference | Théophile Gautier - Mademoiselle de Maupin |
| Associated object | E.308-1972 (Original) |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.421-1972 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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