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H. Harrod, 1948","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Drawing by Aubrey Beardsley, 'Margery' 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. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016] 2 volumes (xxxi, [1], 519, [1] pages; xi, [1], 547, [1] pages) : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm. ISBN: 9780300111279\r\n\r\nThe entry is as follows:\r\n283\r\nMargery\r\nEarly February 1893\r\nVictoria and Albert Museum, London (E.33-1948)\r\nPen and Indian ink over pencil on white wove paper; 4 15/6 x 3 13/16 inches (126 x 98 mm); signed.\r\n\r\nINSCRIPTIONS: Recto inscribed by artist in ink: [monogram at bottom left in cursive]: A B / [at right side]: MARGERY. / [in pencil]: 2 have by / Monday night 6 / [?] / 6; Verso in pencil: 8496 / P.M.G.  / E.33-1948\r\n\r\nPROVENANCE: G. R. Halkett; bt. R. A. Walker in 1913 and sold to Herbert von Garvens; …; H. H. Harrod; bequeathed to Victoria and Albert Museum in 1948.\r\n\r\nEXHIBITION: London 1966-8 (152)\r\n\r\nLITERATURE: Vallance 1897 (p.203), 1909 (no.55.iii.4); Gallatin 1945 (no. 256); Reade 1967 (p.314 n.44); 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 43).\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. In the play Margery, played by Kate Phillips, is Godfrey’s nurse. Beardsley draws her as a chunky young girl.For further comment on Beardsley’s drawings for the Pall Mall Budget, see no. 274 above. 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