Images Dated 2022 January

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'. From "The Best of Beardsley" edited by R. A. Walker, [The Bodley Head, London, 1948]

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The Actor Ichikawa Komazo III in Three Roles: Nyosan no Miya (The Third Princess)..., c

The Actor Ichikawa Komazo III in Three Roles: Nyosan no Miya (The Third Princess), Ukare Zato (A Blind Street Performer), and Sakata no Kaido-maru, in the Play Zoho Natsu Matsuri (Expanded Summer Festival), Performed at the Kawarazaki Theater from the First Day of the Eighth Month, 1791, c. 1791

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The Actor Mimasu Tokujiro I as Hayano Kampei, in Act Five of Kanadehon.., c. 1786

The Actor Mimasu Tokujiro I as Hayano Kampei, in Act Five of Kanadehon Chushingura (Treasury of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the Eleventh Day of the Fifth Month, 1786, c. 1786

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