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XVIII. aeneas and company set out from Troy.

XIX. aeneas seeth Creusa's ghost.

The above drawings in ordinary ink are contained in a copy-book, 8 6-1/2 inches. Unpublished. Exhibited in London at Carfax & Co.'s Galleries, October 1904. (Property of Harold Hartley, Esq.) End of 1886.

5. THE POPE WEIGHS HEAVILY ON THE CHURCH. Pen-drawing contained in the same copy-book with the last-named.

6. JOHN SMILES, a comic ill.u.s.tration to the school history book, representing King John in the act of signing Magna Charta.

Pen-drawing on paper 7-1/4 5 inches. Unpublished. (Property of H. A. Payne, Esq.)

7. SAINT BRADLAUGH, M.P., a caricature. Pen-drawing on a half sheet of notepaper. Unpublished. (Property of H. A. Payne, Esq.)

8. AUTUMN TINTS. Caricature in black and white of the artist's schoolmaster, Mr Marshall, expounding to his pupils the beauties of nature. Unpublished. Given to Ernest Lambert, Esq., Brighton, _c._ 1886-7.

Beside the above-named there must have been numbers of such drawings belonging to this early period; for in his schooldays Aubrey Beardsley was, to quote the words of Mr H. A. Payne, ”constantly doing these little, rough, humorous sketches, which he gave away wholesale.” Many have been destroyed or lost, others dispersed abroad. Thus, for instance, one old Brighton Grammar School boy, C. E. Pitt-Schenkel, told Mr Payne that he was in possession of some, which he took out to South Africa.

9. THE JUBILEE CRICKET a.n.a.lYSIS. Eleven tiny pen-and-ink sketches, ent.i.tled respectively:----

I. A good bowler.

II. Over.

III. Slip.

IV. Square leg.

V. Shooters.

VI. Caught.

VII. A block.

VIII. A demon bowler.

IX. Stumped.

X. Long leg.

XI. Cutting a ball.

All these subjects being represented, in humorous fas.h.i.+on, by literal equivalents. These drawings, though they cannot pretend to any merit, are notable as the earliest specimens to be published of the artist's work. Together they formed a whole-page photo-lithographic ill.u.s.tration in _Past and Present_, the Brighton Grammar School Magazine, June 1887.

10. CONGREVE'S ”DOUBLE DEALER,” ill.u.s.tration of a scene from, comprising Maskwell and Lady Touchwood. Pen drawing with sepia wash, on a sheet of paper 13-1/2 11 inches. Unpublished. (Property of H. A. Payne, Esq.) Signed and dated June 30, 1888.

11. HOLYWELL STREET. Wash drawing. First published in _The Poster_, Aug.-Sept. 1898. Republished in ”The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley, with a Prefatory Note by H. C. Marillier.” John Lane, March 1899.

(Property of Charles B. Cochran, Esq., 1888.)

12. THE PAY OF THE PIED PIPER: A LEGEND OF HAMELIN TOWN. Eleven line drawings in ill.u.s.tration of, as follows:----

I. Entrance of Councillors, headed by Beadle carrying a mace.

Reproduced in _The Westminster Budget_, March 25, 1898.

II. Rats feeding upon a cheese in a dish. Reproduced in _Westminster Budget_, March 25, 1898.

III. Child climbing into an armchair to escape from the rats. Reproduced in _The Poster_, Aug.-Sept. 1898.

IV. The Sitting of the Council, under the presidency of the Burgomaster.