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The Toilet: P.496-1991

Current Location: In storage

Titles

The Toilet
The Savoy, No. I

Maker(s)

Designer: Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent

Entities

Categories

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950, transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio

Dating

Production date: AD 1896

Note

Illustration to "Under the Hill" by Aubrey Beardsley, Chapter II, on p.161 of The Savoy, No. I, January 1896, edited by Arthur Symons and published by Leonard Smithers, London.

School or Style

British

Materials used in production

Black carbon ink

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Image Height 182 mm Width 127 mm
Sheet Height 249 mm Width 184 mm

Techniques used in production

Line block

Related exhibitions

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.496-1991
Primary reference Number: 18317

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 2 March 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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