Title

The Barge, 1895-1896. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley.

Caption

The Barge, 1895-1896. Baroque scene: a woman with an elaborate hairstyle is attended by two men in a boat with ornate decoration. 'Launched on the bosom of the silver Thames; Fair nymphs, and well-dressed youths around her shone; But ev'ry eye was fixed on her alone'. Illustration for "The Rape of the Lock" by Alexander Pope, published privately by Leonard Smithers in 1896. Rape in this context refers not to sexual violence but to the theft and carrying away of a lock of hair, from the Latin rapere: to snatch, to grab, to carry off. From "The Best of Beardsley" edited by R. A. Walker, [The Bodley Head, London, 1948]

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Amanda Waite

Reference

HRM22A17_403

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NA

Property release

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License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,4Mb (3,4Mb) / 11,7in x 16,8in / 3507 x 5026 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation soft furnishing R. A. Walker R. A. Rainforth Armitage Walker Rainforth Armitage 19th-century Decadent movement Leonard Smithers Leonard Charles Smithers Leonard Charles river River Thames Thames female women woman people male man men boat boats arts fan art book guy British geography design decoration decorative ornate hair Baroque curtain curtains century barge outing Art Nouveau Britain day trip hairstyle literature concept day out B&W publishing 19th century water transport graphic design poem poetry black & white black and white B W hand held 18th century Eighteenth Century nineteenth century geographical feature illustration satire Alexander Pope Pope Walker Aubrey Beardsley Aubrey Vincent Beardsley Alexander Smithers publishing house Baroque Era Beardsley Aubrey Beardsley Aubrey Vincent Bodley Head Shirley Markham Leonard