Aubrey Beardsley - Arbuscula - Public domain portrait print
Summary
Published in "History of Dancing from the Earliest Ages to the Our Times" (1898), but only in 35 de luxe copies. Depicts Roman actress Arbuscula.
Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898), he leading English illustrator of the 1890s and, after Oscar Wilde, the outstanding figure in the Aestheticism movement. Drawing was a strong interest from early childhood, and Beardsley practiced it while earning his living as a clerk. Beardsley’s meeting with the English artist Sir Edward Burne-Jones in 1891 prompted him to attend evening classes at the Westminster School of Art for a few months, his only professional instruction.
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Date
1898
Source
Wikimedia Commons
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Public Domain