id: 130369
accession number: 1953.136
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.136
updated: 2024-04-25 18:16:07.379000
The Toilet, from The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope, c. 1895–96. Aubrey Beardsley (British, 1872–1898). Pen and black ink with traces of graphite underdrawing; sheet: 25.6 x 17.4 cm (10 1/16 x 6 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1953.136
title: The Toilet, from The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope
title in original language:
series:
series in original language:
creation date: c. 1895–96
creation date earliest: 1890
creation date latest: 1898
current location:
creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund
copyright:
---
culture: England, 19th century
technique: pen and black ink with traces of graphite underdrawing
department: Drawings
collection: DR - British
type: Drawing
find spot:
catalogue raisonne:
---
CREATORS
* Aubrey Beardsley (British, 1872–1898) - artist
---
measurements: Sheet: 25.6 x 17.4 cm (10 1/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
state of the work:
edition of the work:
support materials:
inscriptions:
---
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley
opening date: 1966-05-19T04:00:00
Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (May 19-September 19, 1966); The Gallery of Modern Art, New York, NY (February 13-April 13, 1967).
title: Aubrey Beardsley
opening date: 1967-12-11T05:00:00
Aubrey Beardsley. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (December 11, 1967-March 4, 1968).
title: From Block Books to Baskin: Artists as Illustrators
opening date: 1986-05-13T04:00:00
From Block Books to Baskin: Artists as Illustrators. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 13-August 17, 1986).
title: Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure
opening date: 1991-11-05T05:00:00
Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1991-January 12, 1992).
title: British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2013-02-10T00:00:00
British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013).
---
LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Aubrey Beardsley. Gallery of Modern Art, New York (February 14 - April 9, 1967).', 'opening_date': '1967-02-14T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Aubrey Beardsley. The Victoria and Albert Museum, London (1966).', 'opening_date': '1966-01-01T00:00:00'}
---
PROVENANCE
(R. A. Walker, Bedford, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
date: ?-1953
footnotes:
citations:
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1953-
footnotes:
citations:
---
fun fact:
digital description:
wall description:
---
RELATED WORKS
---
CITATIONS
Pope, Alexander. The Rape of the Lock: An Heroi-comical Poem in Five Cantos. London: Leonard Smithers, 1896.
page number: Reproduced: p. 8
url: https://archive.org/details/rapeoflockheroic00popeuoft/page/n23/mode/2up
Marillier, H.C.. The Later Work of Aubrey Beardsley. New York: John Lane, 1920.
page number: Reproduced: pl. 88
url:
Hind, Lewis C.. The Uncollected Work of Aubrey Beardsley. London: John Lane; New York: Dodd, Mead and Company,1925.
page number: Mentioned: p. ix, no. 16
url:
Gallatin, A. E. Aubrey Beardsley; Catalogue of Drawings and Bibliography. New York: Grolier Club, 1945.
page number: Mentioned: p. 63, no. 1036
url:
Walker, R.A.. The Best of Beardsley. London: Bodley Head, 1948.
page number: Reproduced: pl. 61
url:
Hölscher, Eberhard von. Aubrey Beardsley. Hamburg: Ernst Hauswedell, 1949.
page number: Reproduced: p. 40
url:
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
url:
Reade, Brian. Aubrey Beardsley. New York: The Viking Press, 1967.
page number: Reproduced: p. 352, no. 406
url:
Ross, Robert Baldwin. Aubrey Beardsley. New York: Jack Brussel,1967.
page number: Reproduced: p. 26; Mentioned: p. 102, no. 144
url:
Reade, Brian and Raymond Rohauer. Aubrey Beardsley. Exh. Cat. New York: Foundation for Modern Art, 1967.
page number: Mentioned: no. 199
url:
Halsband, Robert. The Rape of the Lock and Its Illustrations, 1714-1896. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
page number: Reproduced: p. 98, no. 48
url:
Wilson, Simon. Beardsley. Oxford: Phaidon, 1983.
page number: Reproduced: fig. 29
url:
Miller, J. Hillis. "The Mirror's Secret: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Double Work of Art." In Contemporary Critics Look at Victorian Poetry, 333-49. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 1991.
page number: Mentioned: p. 342, 348; Reproduced: fig. 8
url: www.jstor.org/stable/40003000
Takashina, Shūji and Nobuyuki Senzoku, eds. Western Art: Fin du siècle and Symbolism. Vol. 24 of New History of World Art. Tokyo: Shōgakkan, 1996.
page number: Reproduced: no. 177
url:
Zatlin, Linda Gertner. Aubrey Beardsley: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 215-16; Reproduced: p. 215, fig. 979
url:
---
IMAGES
web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.136/1953.136_web.jpg
print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.136/1953.136_print.jpg
full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.136/1953.136_full.tif