Exhibition will show the artist had a broader range than the simple black-and-white line drawings for which he is famousThe work of Aubrey Beardsley, master of the stylised ink line, is still popular on postcards and posters 120 years after his short life ended. But a new London exhibition at Tate Britain next year aims to prove that Beardsley had more than one trick as an illustrator and graphic artist.Five of the artist’s original illustrations for Alexander Pope’s poem The Rape of the Lock are to be shown together for the first time since they were created in 1897, as part of the largest display of his work in Britain for more than 50 years. Continue reading…
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