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Charles Elkin Mathews Collection

Background imageCharles Elkin Mathews Collection: The Mysterious Rose Garden, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley

The Mysterious Rose Garden, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
The Mysterious Rose Garden, 1894. A nude woman and a robed figure with winged boots, a scene supposedly inspired by the Annunciation. From The Yellow Book, Vol. IV

Background imageCharles Elkin Mathews Collection: Cover Design for The Yellow Book, Vol II, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley

Cover Design for The Yellow Book, Vol II, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
Cover Design for The Yellow Book, Vol II, 1894. A woman wearing a starched dress with bow, a bookcase, and a background of stylised tulips. From " The Best of Beardsley" edited by R. A

Background imageCharles Elkin Mathews Collection: Comedy-Ballet of Marionettes, I, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley

Comedy-Ballet of Marionettes, I, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
Comedy-Ballet of Marionettes, I, 1894. Woman with a muff, wearing a floor-length dress, accompanied by a dwarf. From The Yellow Book, Vol. II

Background imageCharles Elkin Mathews Collection: Les Passades, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley

Les Passades, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
Les Passades, 1894. Two women in evening dress. From the Winter Number of Today...a companion drawing to Night Piece in Vol. I of The Yellow Book

Background imageCharles Elkin Mathews Collection: The Repentance of Mrs... 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley

The Repentance of Mrs... 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
The Repentance of Mrs... 1894. A woman kneels in prayer, as others look on knowingly. From The Yellow Book, Vol. IV. A similar subject to The Litany of Mary Magdalen done in his [Beardsley s] earlier

Background imageCharles Elkin Mathews Collection: Miss Winifred Emery, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley

Miss Winifred Emery, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
Miss Winifred Emery, 1894. Portrait of British actress and actor-manager Winifred Emery. From The Yellow Book, Vol. IV. Published in " The Best of Beardsley" edited by R. A

Background imageCharles Elkin Mathews Collection: Mrs Patrick Campbell, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley

Mrs Patrick Campbell, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
Mrs Patrick Campbell, 1894. From the Yellow Book, Vol. I. This harmless, but clever, caricature was greeted with a howl of execration at the time

Background imageCharles Elkin Mathews Collection: L Education Sentimentale, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley

L Education Sentimentale, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
L Education Sentimentale, 1894. This drawing created much stir at the time...[it was] subsequently cut off and tinted by the artist and renamed Mrs Marsuple (from Under the Hill)

Background imageCharles Elkin Mathews Collection: Portrait of Himself, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley

Portrait of Himself, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
Portrait of Himself, 1894. British artist and eccentric Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) depicts himself as a tiny figure in an enormous canopied bed

Background imageCharles Elkin Mathews Collection: Frontispiece to An Evil Motherhood. Elkin Mathews, 1895. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley

Frontispiece to An Evil Motherhood. Elkin Mathews, 1895. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
Frontispiece to An Evil Motherhood. Elkin Mathews, 1895. Illustration to " An Evil Motherhood. an Impressionist Novel, Etc." by Walt Ruding, published by Elkin Mathews

Background imageCharles Elkin Mathews Collection: La Dame aux Camelias, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley

La Dame aux Camelias, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
La Dame aux Camelias, 1894. Woman standing at a dressing table, wearing a voluminous white coat over an evening dress with peacock feather motifs

Background imageCharles Elkin Mathews Collection: Comedy-Ballet of Marionettes, II, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley

Comedy-Ballet of Marionettes, II, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
Comedy-Ballet of Marionettes, II, 1894. Two women, one in bloomers and the other in a figure-hugging dress with flounced sleeves and hem. From The Yellow Book, Vol. II

Background imageCharles Elkin Mathews Collection: Cover Design for The Yellow Book, Vol I, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley

Cover Design for The Yellow Book, Vol I, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
Cover Design for The Yellow Book, Vol I, 1894. Masked carnival-goers in the style of Jules Cheret. " The Yellow Book", published by John Lane

Background imageCharles Elkin Mathews Collection: Garcons de Cafe, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley

Garcons de Cafe, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
Garcons de Cafe, 1894. French waiters. From The Yellow Book, Vol. II. The original was once the property of the artists House-Master at the Brighton Grammar School

Background imageCharles Elkin Mathews Collection: The Wagnerites, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley

The Wagnerites, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
The Wagnerites, 1894. An audience, some with elaborate hairstyles, in an opera house. A programme that has fallen to the floor reads Tristan und Isolde, an opera by Richard Wagner

Background imageCharles Elkin Mathews Collection: Madame Rejane, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley

Madame Rejane, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
Madame Rejane, 1894. Portrait of French actress Gabrielle Rejane whose London debut as Catherine in " Madame Sans Gene" took place at the Gaiety Theatre on June 24, 1894

Background imageCharles Elkin Mathews Collection: Cover Design for The Yellow Book, Vol III, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley

Cover Design for The Yellow Book, Vol III, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
Cover Design for The Yellow Book, Vol III, 1894. The conceit of using two street lamps for the lighting of a ladys toilet mirror was the sort of anomaly that puzzled

Background imageCharles Elkin Mathews Collection: Lady Golds Escort, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley

Lady Golds Escort, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
Lady Golds Escort, 1894. People in evening dress, possibly at a theatre. From The Yellow Book, Vol. III. A social satire which was not graciously received by the critics of the day

Background imageCharles Elkin Mathews Collection: Cover Design for The Yellow Book, Vol IV, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley

Cover Design for The Yellow Book, Vol IV, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
Cover Design for The Yellow Book, Vol IV, 1894. A child (servant?) offering a flower to a woman. From " The Best of Beardsley" edited by R. A. Walker, [The Bodley Head, London, 1948]

Background imageCharles Elkin Mathews Collection: Frontispiece for Juvenal, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley

Frontispiece for Juvenal, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
Frontispiece for Juvenal, 1894. An elderly woman is just glimpsed between the curtains of a sedan chair carried by monkeys. From The Yellow Book, Vol. IV

Background imageCharles Elkin Mathews Collection: Comedy-Ballet of Marionettes, III, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley

Comedy-Ballet of Marionettes, III, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
Comedy-Ballet of Marionettes, III, 1894. Figures on stage, with cymbals player, piper, conductor and drummer in the orchestra pit. From The Yellow Book, Vol. I

Background imageCharles Elkin Mathews Collection: Design for a Yellow Book Cover, 1894-1895. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley

Design for a Yellow Book Cover, 1894-1895. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
Design for a Yellow Book Cover, 1894-1895. A woman holding a muff looks at a pile of books: Story of Venus and Tannhauser, Discords, Shakespeare, The Yellow Book, Dickens. This design was not used


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