Aubrey Beardsley
Medium
platinum print mounted on three layers of paper
Dimensions
image: 13 × 9.2 cm (5 1/8 × 3 5/8 in.) mount: 37.8 x 27.1 cm (14 7/8 x 10 11/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Paul Mellon Fund
Accession Number
2007.29.19
About the Artist
Frederick H. Evans · 1853–1943
Frederick H. Evans was born in London on 26 June 1853 and lived there his entire life, dying just two days before his ninetieth birthday in 1943. His first career was as a bookseller, operating a shop in Cheapside where he became a well-connected figure in London's intellectual life, counting the playwright George Bernard Shaw and the illustrator Aubrey Beardsley among his friends and customers. H...