The eighteen nineties; a review of art and ideas at the close of the nineteenth century (1922)
Jackson, Holbrook, 1874-1948 · New York, A.A. Knopf · leaf 115
t in a cab. When Beardsley opened the port-folio, and began to show us The Rape of the Lock, Whistlerlooked at them first indifferently, then with interest, thenwith delight. And then he said slowly ; Aubrey, I havemade a very great mistake—you are a very great artist.And the boy burst out crying.… … The Rape of the Lock By Auhriy Beardsley AUBREY BEARDSLEY 99 ripening of uninstructed genius, and the brilliant productive-ness of those last six disease-ridden years, his best drawingsstand out from the general level of British art with suchsheer audacity as to compel attention. It may be true…
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