Part 9 (1/2)

109. AUTUMN. Design in black-and-white for a calendar to be published by William Heinemann. Reproduced in ”Early Work.”

110. TALES OF MYSTERY AND WONDER, by Edgar Allen Poe (Stone & Kimball, Chicago, U.S.A., 1895); four designs in pen-and-ink for large paper edition of----

I. The Murders in the Rue Morgue.

II. The Black Cat.

III. The Masque of the Red Death. First published in the ”Chap Book”

(Chicago), Aug. 15, 1894, again in same, April 1, 1898.

IV. The Fall of the House of Usher.

111. OUTLINE PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST in profile to left; in imaginary costume, with a lace ruff to the neck, and earrings in the ears.

Published in ”Posters in Miniature,” and again in ”Early Work.”

A half-tone block from variant of the same, the earring as well as the b.u.t.ton on lappel and waist of coat more p.r.o.nounced, was published in _The Hour_, March 27, 1895, and reproduced in _Magazine of Art_, November 1896.

112. A CHILD STANDING BY ITS MOTHER'S BED, black-and-white, chiefly outline. First published in _The Sketch_, April 10, 1895. Reproduced in ”Early Work.” Formerly in the possession of Max Beerbohm, Esq., but since lost.

113. THE SCARLET PASTORALE, pen-and-ink. First published in _The Sketch_, April 10, 1895. Also printed in scarlet on white. Reproduced in ”Fifty Drawings.”

114. PORTRAIT OF MISS ETHEL DEVEREUX, pencil drawing. (Property of Mrs Roy Devereux.) _Circa_ 1895.

115. DESIGN FOR AN INVITATION CARD, ink outline; seated Pierrot smoking, a copy of the ”Yellow Book,” Vol. IV., on the couch at his side.

Drawn for Mr John Lane's Sette of Odd Volumes Smoke. Reproduced in _The Studio_, September 1895. (Property of John Lane, Esq.)

116. THREE DECORATIVE DESIGNS from the brown paper cover of Aubrey Beardsley's own copy of ”Tristan und Isolde.” Two reproduced in ”Later Work.” (Property of Frederick H. Evans, Esq.)

117. MAX ALVARY AS ”TRISTAN” in Wagner's opera ”Tristan und Isolde,”

half-length profile to left, pen-and-ink and wash with unusual monogram signature. 10 5-1/2 inches. First published in ”Aubrey Beardsley's Drawings, a catalogue and a list of criticisms,” by A. E. Gallatin (New York, 1903). (Formerly the property of Rev.

G. H. Palmer, now of A. E. Gallatin, Esq.)

118. FRAU KLAFSKY AS ”ISOLDE” in above-named opera, pen-and-ink and pale green water-colour, 13 4-3/4 inches. First published in the _Critic_ (New York), December, 1902. (Formerly the property of Rev. G. H.

Palmer, now of A. E. Gallatin, Esq.)

119. ISOLDE; autolithograph in scarlet, grey, green, and black on white; supplement to _The Studio_, October 1895.

120. WOMAN RECLINING IN A MEADOW BY THE BORDER OF A LAKE, LISTENING TO A FAUN READING OUT OF A BOOK TO HER. Oblong design in ink on white; a variant of the design for wrapper of Leonard Smithers' Catalogue, No. 3. First published in _The Studio_, May 1898, again in ”Early Work,” where it is described as ”hitherto unpublished.” (Property of John Lane, Esq.) 1895.

121. DESIGN FOR WRAPPER OF ”CATALOGUE OF RARE BOOKS,” NO. 3. (Leonard Smithers, September 1895.) The same figures as in the last-named, but the landscape has an urn and additional trees to adapt the design to upright shape. Black on pale blue-green paper.

122. CHOPIN BALLADE III., ill.u.s.tration for. Woman rider, mounted on a prancing white horse to left. Wash drawing. First published in _The Studio_, May 1898, in half tones of grey, with deep purplish black; again in ”Second Book.” (Property of Charles Holme, Esq.) 1895.

123. CHOPIN'S NOCTURNES, frontispiece to. Pen-and-ink and wash. First published in ”Early Work.” (Property of John Lane, Esq.)

124. EARL LAVENDER, by John Davidson (Ward & Downey, 1895), design for frontispiece to. Woman scourging a kneeling, barebacked figure.

Pen-and-ink outline. Reproduced in ”Early Work.” (Property of John Lane, Esq.)

125. YOUNG OFEG'S DITTIES, by George Egerton (John Lane, 1895), t.i.tle-page and cover design for.

126. MESSALINA, with another woman on her left, black-and-white, with black background. First published in ”Second Book,” again in ”Early Work,”