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Smithers encouraged Beardsley's  interest in French, Latin and Greek texts of this kind and commissioned drawings to illustrate Aristophanes's famously bawdy satirical play <i>Lysistrata</i> and the <i>Satires</i> of the late Roman poet Juvenal. Beardsley made his outrageous drawings for Juvenal in the summer of 1896 whilst recuperating at the genteel seaside resort of Boscombe.\r\n\r\nBeardsley's design for the frontispiece to Juvenal's <i>Sixth Satire, 'Against Woman'</i>, shows the poet, crowned with a laurel wreath but with his tunic tucked up to reveal the genitals, vigorously lashing a plump and placid woman tied to a slender column. The image is derived from a famous late 16th-century print, <i>Satyr flogging a Nymph,</i> from the so-called 'Lascivious Series' by Agostino Carracci (1557-1602).","physicalDescription":"Print, depicting the author scourging a symbolic, matronly woman tied to a slender column on a plinth. 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