Messalina Returning from the Bath (Unpublished illustration for "The Sixth Satire of Juvenal")
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, English, 1872 - 1898
about 1896
Line-block print on paper
Image: 6 7/8 × 5 9/16 in. (17.4 × 14.2 cm)
Sheet: 12 × 9 in. (30.5 × 22.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.917.12.4
Geography
Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Printed, in image, upper left: MESSALINA.
Exhibition History
Art 52, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 26, 1981-January 1982.
Provenance
Source unknown; catalogued, 1917.
Catalogue Raisonne
B. Reade, Beardsley, London: Studio Vista Ltd., 1967, p. 363, no. 483.
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