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"title": "Fairy Tales and Fables: Illustration and Storytelling in Art",
"description": "Fairy Tales and Fables: Illustration and Storytelling in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 4-September 8, 2024).",
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"description": "In this drawing, Aubrey Beardsley illustrates an early scene in Alexander Pope\u2019s satirical masterpiece The Rape of the Lock (1712) in which the heroine, Belinda, primps in her boudoir. Reflecting the poem\u2019s emphasis on contrived rather than natural beauty, the drawing is densely layered with artifice. A view of an idyllic garden with a cupola-topped pavilion is glimpsed not through a window as it would first seem, but on a folding screen. The bejeweled bottles littering the table serve as emblems of Belinda\u2019s vanity.",
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"citation": "Walker, R.A.. The Best of Beardsley. London: Bodley Head, 1948.",
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"citation": "Ho\u0308lscher, Eberhard von. Aubrey Beardsley. Hamburg: Ernst Hauswedell, 1949.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 40",
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"citation": "Reade, Brian and Frank Dickinson. Aubrey Beardsley ; Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Exh. Cat. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1966.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 227, no. 506",
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"citation": "Reade, Brian. Aubrey Beardsley. New York: The Viking Press, 1967.",
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"citation": "Wilson, Simon. Beardsley. Oxford: Phaidon, 1983.",
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"citation": "Zatlin, Linda Gertner. Aubrey Beardsley: A Catalogue Raisonne\u0301. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.",
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