Aubrey Beardsley, Reduction of cover design to 1896 edition of The Rape of the Lock, 1897.
Line-block (?). 115 mm x 80 mm.
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Reduction of cover design to 1896 edition of The Rape of the Lock, 1897
Aubrey Beardsley (1872 - 1898)
RA Collection: Art
115 mm x 80 mm
The rape of the lock : an heroi-comical poem in five cantos / written by Alexander Pope ; embroidered with eleven drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. - London: [1897]
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