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Victoria and Albert Museum in 1972 with the aid of a contribution from the National Art Collections Fund.\r\n\r\nEXHIBITION: London 1966-8 (292), 1993 (100)\r\n\r\nLITERATURE: Grahame Pagan Papers 1894 (p. 14); Artist February 1894 (p. 56); Vallance 1897 (p.209), 1909 (no. 67); Gallatin 1945 (no. 844); Reade 1967 (p.335 n.208); Samuels Lasner 1995 (no.53).\r\n\r\nREPRODUCED: Title page for Pagan Papers, by Kenneth Grahame, published by Elkin Mathews and John Lane on 30 November 1893; Early Work 1899 (no.121); Reade 1967 (plate 267).\r\n\r\nThe reviewer for the Artist declares, ‘the naked archaic woman (if woman be intended) and the wild looking horned man form a curiously unsuitable frontispiece’ (February 1894, p.56). In fact, Beardsley took his subject from ‘The Rural Pan’, the sixth ‘paper’ in this volume, a satire on the man-about-town’s spring season. The figure at the left is ‘the young Apollo, the lord of the unerring (satin) bow’ (Grahame Pagan Papers 1894, p.34). 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