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H. Harrod, 1948","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Drawing by Aubrey Beardsley, 'Master Leo', one of a series of three caricatures of actors in character in Tennyson's 'Becket', produced by Sir Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre, London, 6 February 1893, pen and Indian ink and graphite on paper, London, 1893","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Calloway, Stephen. <u>Aubrey Beardsley</u>. London: V & A Publications, 1998. 224pp, illus. ISBN: 1851772197.","id":"AUTH332149"},"details":"","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design, and Department of Paintings, Accessions: 1948, Volume II, Henry Herbert Harrod Bequest</u>, London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1957"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Linda Gertner Zatlin, Aubrey Beardsley : a catalogue raisonne. 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Harrod; bequeathed to Victoria and Albert Museum in 1948.\r\n\r\nEXHIBITION: London 1966-8 (151)\r\n\r\nLITERATURE: Vallance 1897 (p.203), 1909 (no.55.iii.2); Gallatin 1945 (no. 254); Reade 1967 (p.314 n.43); Samuels Lasner 1995 (no.9)\r\n\r\nREPRODUCED: Pall Mall Budget 9 February 1893 (p. 188); Early Work 1899 (no.144); Reade 1967 (plate 42).\r\n\r\nThis drawing is one of eight that Beardsley made for the Pall Mall Budget to illustrate a review of Tennyson’s Beckett (1879), which opened at the Lyceum Theatre, London, on 6 February 1893. Master Leo Byrne played Godfrey, the son of Henry II and his beloved Fair Rosamund. The drawing refers to Act II, Scene i, when Henry gives Godfrey a ball, saying ‘Here is a ball, my boy, thy world, to turn anyway and play with as thy wilt’. Although Godfrey has promised Henry ‘not to turn thy world upside down’, he betrays his mother to Eleanor of Aquitaine, Henry’s wife. 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