{"id":1944,"date":"2015-08-21T01:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/?p=1944"},"modified":"2015-11-17T10:18:34","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T15:18:34","slug":"born-on-this-day-aubrey-beardsley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/born-on-this-day-aubrey-beardsley\/","title":{"rendered":"Born on this day: Aubrey Beardsley"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Masson<\/a>The English illustrator and writer,\u00a0Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, was born 143 years ago, on\u00a0August 21, 1872. Known for his unique illustration style, a blending of\u00a0Art Nouveau and\u00a0Japanese print aesthetics, Beardsley gained popularity with the 1893 Dent edition of\u00a0<\/a>Le Morte d’Arthur<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0He would later illustrate Oscar Wilde’s Salom\u00e9<\/em> (1894)\u00a0– a portfolio of designs for this book is\u00a0available in our collection <\/a>– which made him famous. Our William Colgate Printing Collection includes two further examples of his work, these published by Stone & Kimball in 1894: The frontispiece for W.B. Yeats’\u00a0The Land of Heart’s Desire<\/a><\/em> and\u00a0frontispiece and vignette for the title and cover of John Davidson’s\u00a0Plays.\u00a0<\/em>Later editions of his work in children’s books and fairy tales are also available for consultation.<\/p>\n

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\"pic_2015-08-21_174811\"<\/a>Beardsley’s work can also be found in our journal collection\u00a0– in the earliest issues of The Studio<\/a><\/em>, and\u00a0as\u00a0illustrator and art editor of\u00a0The Yellow Book<\/a><\/em>. His bookplates may be\u00a0found in our monograph collection and in our online\u00a0Philippe\u00a0<\/em><\/a>Masson\u00a0Ex-Libris\u00a0Collection<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Bearsdley died in France on March 16, 1898.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The English illustrator and writer,\u00a0Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, was born 143 years ago, on\u00a0August 21, 1872. Known for his unique illustration style, a blending of\u00a0Art Nouveau and\u00a0Japanese print aesthetics, Beardsley gained popularity with the 1893 Dent edition of\u00a0Le Morte d’Arthur.\u00a0He would … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1944"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions\/2163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}