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BEARDSLEY (AUBREY) Portrait photograph of Aubrey Beardsley by Henry Herschel Hay Cameron, INSCRIBED BY THE SITTER; and other photographs and materials
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BEARDSLEY (AUBREY)
Portrait photograph of Aubrey Beardsley, half-length in tweed suit, by Henry Herschel Hay Cameron, INSCRIBED BY THE SITTER "To Mrs Underhill from Aubrey Beardsley" on the mount, platinum print, mounted on card, signed lower right of mount, some spotting to mount and a couple to image, pencil note by framer on verso, image 238 x 184mm., mount 300 x 250mm., [August/September 1896]; together with
HOLLYER (FREDERICK) Portrait of Aubrey Beardsley, half-length leaning on a windowsill, platinum print, mounted on card, photographer's name and address ("Fredr. Hollyer, 9 Pembroke Sqre, Kensington W") in red ink, and Aubrey's name in his mother's hand on verso of mount, image 108 x 148, mount 116 x 160mm., [c.1890]
DICKINS (FRANK) Cabinet portrait of Mabel Beardsley, albumen print on photographer's mount with name and address in gilt, sitter identified on verso by Beardsley's mother, image 140 x 100mm., [1890s]
Three photographs of Aubrey Beardsley's mother Ellen, including one seated in a garden beside her daughter sister Mabel who is lying in an invalid bed (c.1905), one with "Miss Dash" in 1929, and one aged 85 in 1931
BEARDSLEY (ELLEN) Two autograph letters signed ("Ellen A. Beardsley" and "E.A. Beardsley") to Mina ("Wilhemina", her cousin), in both reminiscing wistfully of her son Aubrey, and his grave at Menton, ("... I only pray that I may die the beautiful death he died. His patience during his long illness touched the hearts of all who lived in the house...", undated), ("My one long wish, which I fear will never be granted, is to see it [Aubrey's grave at Menton] again!", dated 15 October 1928), together 8 pages (one missing a page), 8vo, 29, St. George's Terrace, Brighton
ROSS (ROBERT) Aubrey Beardsley, inscribed "with love from Aubrey's mother & sister, Xmas 1908" on front free endpaper, 16 plates, publisher's cloth, 8vo, John Lane, 1909
SYMONS (ARTHUR) Aubrey Beardsley, one of 150 large paper copies, photogravure frontispiece, 17 plates, a few manuscript notes by Ellen Beardsley's mother loosely inserted, publisher's parchment-backed cloth, 4to, J.M. Dent, 1905 (small archive)
HOLLYER (FREDERICK) Portrait of Aubrey Beardsley, half-length leaning on a windowsill, platinum print, mounted on card, photographer's name and address ("Fredr. Hollyer, 9 Pembroke Sqre, Kensington W") in red ink, and Aubrey's name in his mother's hand on verso of mount, image 108 x 148, mount 116 x 160mm., [c.1890]
DICKINS (FRANK) Cabinet portrait of Mabel Beardsley, albumen print on photographer's mount with name and address in gilt, sitter identified on verso by Beardsley's mother, image 140 x 100mm., [1890s]
Three photographs of Aubrey Beardsley's mother Ellen, including one seated in a garden beside her daughter sister Mabel who is lying in an invalid bed (c.1905), one with "Miss Dash" in 1929, and one aged 85 in 1931
BEARDSLEY (ELLEN) Two autograph letters signed ("Ellen A. Beardsley" and "E.A. Beardsley") to Mina ("Wilhemina", her cousin), in both reminiscing wistfully of her son Aubrey, and his grave at Menton, ("... I only pray that I may die the beautiful death he died. His patience during his long illness touched the hearts of all who lived in the house...", undated), ("My one long wish, which I fear will never be granted, is to see it [Aubrey's grave at Menton] again!", dated 15 October 1928), together 8 pages (one missing a page), 8vo, 29, St. George's Terrace, Brighton
ROSS (ROBERT) Aubrey Beardsley, inscribed "with love from Aubrey's mother & sister, Xmas 1908" on front free endpaper, 16 plates, publisher's cloth, 8vo, John Lane, 1909
SYMONS (ARTHUR) Aubrey Beardsley, one of 150 large paper copies, photogravure frontispiece, 17 plates, a few manuscript notes by Ellen Beardsley's mother loosely inserted, publisher's parchment-backed cloth, 4to, J.M. Dent, 1905 (small archive)
Footnotes
Two fine photograph portraits of Aubrey Beardsley. The inscribed one is by Julia Margert Cameron's son Henry Hay Cameron, and was used as the frontispiece to A Book of Fifty Drawings published by Smithers in 1897. In a letter to Smithers of 11 September 1896, Beardsley commented 'Cameron photo is superb' (Letters, p.162). The other is by Frederick Hollyer (1838-1933) who, in his Pembroke Square studio, photographed a diverse group of artists 'encompassing members of the Arts and Crafts Movement, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Aestheticism, Impressionism and the Royal Academy' (V & A Museum website).
The Mrs. Underhill to whom Aubrey inscribed his portrait is believed to be Wilhemina Underhill, a cousin of Aubrey's mother Ellen. She is also presumably the "Mina" to whom Ellen addresses the letters in this archive.