Title

The New Star, 1895-1896. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley.

Caption

The New Star, 1895-1896. 'A sudden star, it shot through liquid air; And drew behind a radiant trail of hair'. 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_447

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Droits gérés

Available size

59.2Mo (2.2Mo) / 31.9cm x 46.5cm / 3763 x 5495 (300dpi)

Keywords

people back view male man men arts star art book guy British headdress feathers design feather hair century SASH Art Nouveau Britain hairstyle literature B&W full length curly hair full-length headgear head-dress publishing 19th century ostrich feather graphic design black & white black and white B W nineteenth century illustration ostrich feathers rear view Alexander Pope Pope Walker Aubrey Beardsley Aubrey Vincent Beardsley Alexander Smithers publishing house Beardsley Aubrey Beardsley Aubrey Vincent Bodley Head Shirley Markham Leonard R. A. Walker R. A. Rainforth Armitage Walker Rainforth Armitage 19th-century Decadent movement Leonard Smithers Leonard Charles Smithers Leonard Charles