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Volpone Adoring his Treasure (1898)

            By Aubrey Beardsley

Beardsley's final project was to illustrate Ben Jonson's 17th-century, Volpone or the Foxe.  He had originally planned a sequence of 24 illustrations but died before the project was completed.  This picture of Volpone worshipping at the altar of hs wealth is a testament to Beardsley's technical skill.  Evoking 17th-century engravings, the drawing balances intricate linework with curving forms and blocks of white space.  This was to be his last great drawing.  It poignantly shows that Beardsley's imagination and stylistic development continued even as his health was declining. 
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From the exhbition

Aubrey Beardsley
(4 March - 20 September 2020)

Aubrey Beardsley shocked and delighted late-Victorian London with his sinuous black and white drawings. He explored the erotic and the elegant, the humorous and grotesque, winning admirers around the world with his distinctive style.
Spanning seven years, this exhibition will cover Beardsley’s intense and prolific career as a draughtsman and illustrator, cut short by his untimely death from tuberculosis at the age of 25. Beardsley’s charismatic persona played a part in the phenomenon that he and his art generated, so much so that the 1890s were dubbed the ‘Beardsley Period’.
This will be the first exhibition dedicated to Beardsley at Tate since 1923, and the largest display of his original drawings in Europe since the seminal 1966 exhibition at the V&A, which triggered a Beardsley revival.
The over 200 works include his celebrated illustrations for Le Morte d’Arthur, Lysistrata and Oscar Wilde’s Salomé. It will also show artworks that were key inspirations for Beardsley, including a Japanese scroll and watercolours by Edward Burne-Jones and Gustave Moreau.
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Taken in: UK / England / Westminster / Vincent Square (show map)

Taken on: August 17, 2020

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