Periodical Collection (#5)

Two Women Bathing at Waters Edge, from Revue Fantaisiste, 1861

Farmyard, from Revue Fantaisiste, 1861. Creator: Rodolphe Bresdin
Farmyard, from Revue Fantaisiste, 1861

The Thatch-Roofed Farmhouse, from Revue Fantaisiste, 1861. Creator: Rodolphe Bresdin
The Thatch-Roofed Farmhouse, from Revue Fantaisiste, 1861

The Neighborhood, from Revue Fantaisiste, 1861. Creator: Rodolphe Bresdin
The Neighborhood, from Revue Fantaisiste, 1861

The Roman Army, from Revue Fantaisiste, 1856. Creator: Rodolphe Bresdin
The Roman Army, from Revue Fantaisiste, 1856

The House with the Curved Facade, from Revue Fantaisiste, 1861

Farm Cottage, from Revue Fantaisiste, 1861. Creator: Rodolphe Bresdin
Farm Cottage, from Revue Fantaisiste, 1861

Entering a Village, from Revue Fantaisiste, 1861. Creator: Rodolphe Bresdin
Entering a Village, from Revue Fantaisiste, 1861

Frontispiece for the Revue Fantaisiste, 1861. Creator: Rodolphe Bresdin
Frontispiece for the Revue Fantaisiste, 1861

Lake in the Mountains, from Revue Fantaisiste, n. d. Creator: Rodolphe Bresdin
Lake in the Mountains, from Revue Fantaisiste, n.d

Kik-kik-cock-a-doodle doo! Mr. Kelly, how are YOU?, from Puck, published November 12, 1884

The Phoenix, from Puck, 1890. Creator: Joseph Keppler
The Phoenix, from Puck, 1890

It Makes Him Sick, from Puck, published August 18, 1880. Creator: Joseph Keppler
It Makes Him Sick, from Puck, published August 18, 1880

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cover Design for The Savoy No. I, 1895. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
Cover Design for The Savoy No. I, 1895. As originally drawn the amour is making free with a copy of The Yellow Book at his feet, a reference to Beardsleys parting with [publisher] John Lane

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)

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

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

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

Cover Design for Yellow Book Prospectus for Vol V, 1895. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
Cover Design for Yellow Book Prospectus for Vol V, 1895. A faun or satyr, possibly Bacchus?, reads from a book to a woman on a riverbank. Published in " The Best of Beardsley" edited by R

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

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

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

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

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

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]

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

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

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

The Union Jack: Tales for British Boys, 1880
3744573 The Union Jack: Tales for British Boys, 1880 by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Times of Peril, A Tales of India by George Alfred Henty)

Advertisement for "Le Ballon", Janvier, Fevrier, Mars, 1883, pub
2836257 Advertisement for " Le Ballon", Janvier, Fevrier, Mars, 1883, pub. 1883 (colour lithograph) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; The Stapleton Collection; French

The Whitgift Hospital Middle Class School, Croydon, 1873 (litho)
CRD381690 The Whitgift Hospital Middle Class School, Croydon, 1873 (litho) by Akerman, James (fl. 1873); 21.1x29.4 cm; Croydon Art Collection, Museum of Croydon

Ethel Comyns Lewer, editor of The Feathered World
Ethel Harriet Comyns Lewer (1861-1946), periodical proprietor and editor of The Feathered World. and author of Poultry Keeping (1914). 1897

Voltaire (1694-1778) reading L Agent Litteraire, 1811 (oil on canvas)
CHT247111 Voltaire (1694-1778) reading L Agent Litteraire, 1811 (oil on canvas) by Pajou, Jacques Augustin Catherine (1766-1828); Comedie Francaise, Paris

Cover of the first edition of The Gentlemans Magazine
XJF441226 Cover of the first edition of The Gentlemans Magazine, published January 1731 (engraving) by English School, (18th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Colonel P H Fawcett
Colonel Percy H Fawcett (1867 - 1925), British geographer, artillery officer, cartographer, archaeologist, and explorer of South America. 1932

Amazonian Adventure - article in the Sphere
Amazonian Adventure - an account of a 3, 000 mile-journey along the Amazon written and illustrated by Victor Coverley-Price Date: 1st March 1932

Frontispiece illustration for the Universal Magazine (engraving)
964846 Frontispiece illustration for the Universal Magazine (engraving) by English School, (18th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Frontispiece illustration for the Universal Magazine)

Cover design for Die Graphischen Kunste (gold paint) (b / w photo)
FFA178124 Cover design for Die Graphischen Kunste (gold paint) (b/w photo) by Moser, Koloman (1868-1918); 35.5x27.7 cm; Private Collection; Austrian, out of copyright

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