Sujet

Cover Design to Sappho, 1895. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley.

Légende

Cover Design to Sappho, 1895. Lyre motif, illustration for "Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings and a Literal Translation", by Henry Thornton Wharton, on the work of the Greek lyric poet. Her poems were written to be sung while accompanied by music. From "The Best of Beardsley" edited by R. A. Walker, [The Bodley Head, London, 1948]

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Amanda Waite

Notre référence

HRM22A17_480

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

47,1Mo (1,4Mo) / 27,1cm x 43,6cm / 3196 x 5154 (300dpi)

Mots clés

music arts art book British design century musical instrument musical instruments Art Nouveau Britain literature B&W publishing 19th century graphic design Lyre poem poetry black & white black and white B W nineteenth century poems illustration Walker Aubrey Beardsley Aubrey Vincent Beardsley publishing house Beardsley Aubrey Beardsley Aubrey Vincent Bodley Head Shirley Markham R. A. Walker R. A. Rainforth Armitage Walker Rainforth Armitage 19th-century Decadent movement Henry Thornton Wharton Wharton Henry Thornton H.T. Wharton H.T. Sappho