The Toilet, from The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope

Aubrey Beardsley, 1890

MEDIUMpen and black ink with traces of graphite underdrawing

DIMENSIONS[object Object]

LOCATIONCleveland Museum of Art

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Aubrey Beardsley

Master of sinuous black ink who revolutionized book illustration with his provocative drawings for Wilde's Salomé.