Aubrey Beardsley, 1872 - 1898. Illustrator
About this artwork
Although he died at the age of twenty-six, Aubrey Beardsley was one of the most influential English illustrators of the nineteenth century. Here he is shown as a grotesque, based on a contemporary French print of a carving of a gargoyle on the south tower of the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. The parallel seems appropriate. A year before he died, Beardsley noted that as an artist he had only one aim - the grotesque. 'If I am not grotesque I am nothing', he wrote.
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artist:Frederick Henry Evans (1853 - 1943) English
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title:Aubrey Beardsley, 1872 - 1898. Illustrator
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date created:1894
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materials:Platinum/palladium print
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measurements:13.60 x 9.70 cm
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credit line:Gift of Mrs. Riddell in memory of Peter Fletcher Riddell 1985
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accession number:PGP R 170
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Frederick Henry Evans
Frederick Henry Evans
For years F.H. Evans ran a bookshop in Cheapside where Bernard Shaw and Aubrey Beardsley were among his regular customers. In 1896 he gave that up to devote all his time to photography. Evans made his name professionally as an architectural photographer. He documented many of the great English...