Aubrey Beardsley, 1894

Not on View

Medium

platinum print mounted on three layers of paper

Dimensions

image: 13 × 9.2 cm (5 1/8 × 3 5/8 in.)
mount: 37.8 x 27.1 cm (14 7/8 x 10 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Fund

Accession Number

2007.29.19

Artists / Makers

Frederick H. Evans (artist) British, 1853 - 1943

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Inscription

On mount, below photograph, blindstamp: FHE; in graphite: Aubrey Beardsley Frederick H. Evans; on verso, by later hand, upper left in graphite and ballpoint pen: 1895 / c. 1894 (crossed out); affixed label with ballpoint pen: Portrait of Aubrey Beardsley c. 1894

Provenance

(sale, Sotheby's, Belgravia, 8 March 1974, lot 184); Howard and Jane Ricketts, London; NGA purchase, 2007.

Associated Names

Kraus, Jr., Inc., Hans P.

Exhibition History

2014: A Subtle Beauty: Platinum Photographs from the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2014 - 2015, unnumbered catalogue.

2015: In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3 – July 26, 2015