NC 242.B3M42 I- Earl^ work of Aubrey Beardsley, 3 T1S3 DQS aflTfl 4 university of Connecticut libraries Q^CO THIS VOLUME: -J DOES NOT CIRCULATE THE EARLY WORK OF AUBREY BEARDSLEY ,y>^' "'.^"7 /!>,^/',j^/' ^r:,,/^., /'^.y-^s^^t^^.^^.r;: (^r^\^.^„Sr,e^. ' ''WM'/. i^^ec^hicf ^^m-t '- f' LONDON: PRINTED BY THE SWAN ELECTRIC ENGRAVING COMPANY. Il6 CHARING CROSS ROAD. 1 INDEX OF CONTENTS. PORTRAIT OF AUBREY BEARDSLEV. From a study by Mr. F. H. Evans Plotogravure ........ Frontispiece TITLE-PAGE. From an unpublished design by Aubrey Bcardslcy PORTRAIT OF AUBREY BEARDSLEY. From a study by Mr. F. H. Evan Photograi'ure . 3 EARLY SKETCH OF HOLYWELL STREET. By permission of Mr. C. B. Cochran 4 HAIL MARY. Penal Sk.tch. By permission of Mr. F. H. Evans 5 PERSEUS AND THE MONSTRE. Pctin/. By permission of Messrs. Casscll & Co., Ld 6 FIGURE OF A CHILD. Pencil and Ink. By permission of Mr. F. H. Evans 7 PERSEUS. Design for a Panel. Ink „ 8 TWO FIGURES FROM BACK OF ' PERSEUS.' 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HARRISON'S IDEAL NOVELIST •54 MR. PENNELL AS 'THE DEVIL OF NOTRE DAME' '55 DESIGN FOR A POSTER. By permission of Mr. Wm. Heinemann . .56 ' SIGNATURE. From the reverse cover of ' Salome . '57 — Aubrey Vincent Beardsley. Born August 2\, 1872 Died 3iarch i6, 1898. /^^NE hears it asserted, with a confidence that possibly may ^^-^ be born of a wish, that ' the Beardsley craze is dead.' For such as truly hold this belief it can never have been very much alive ; nor is there reason why it should have been. The suddenness of Beardsley's leap into notoriety, the curiosity excited by his audacious invention and novel style, the puzzlement that his work produced on the minds of a steady-going public, sensitive to shocks, are sufficient justification in themselves for those who can see in him only a transient ' craze.' Beardsley never could have been, and never was, intended for the many. His work is seldom of a kind that could be described as popular. Much of it, indeed, is so deliberately regardless of popular prejudices and conventions that one cannot wonder if the public at large found voice to protest against the effronteries of Beardsley at large, and objected to the inroads made upon their forbearance by what they could only regard as incomprehensible manifestations of an unmen- tionable phase of life. Making all possible allowance for this attitude, however, it remains a truism that objections do not kill. To a young and rising artist they are as wholesome nutriment as praise ; fre- I B Aubrey Vincent Beardsley. quently more wholesome. And Beardsley had both. Extravagantly praised and extravagantly hated, he worked in an atmosphere of exotic stimulus which was largely responsible for the eccentricities that developed themselves in his art and in his character. Pricked on upon one hand by the lavish admiration of a group which saw in him more genius than he was really conscious of himself, piqued on the other by the exclamations of a public he was delighted to offend, it is small wonder that his work presented a see-saw appearance, ranging from the nearly sublime to the more than frankly ridiculous.