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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\n\r\nEXHIBITION: London 1966-8 (225).\r\n\r\nLITERATURE: Vallance 1897 (p.202), 1909 (no.59.xx); Gallatin 1945 (no. 345-624); Reade 1967 (p.319 n.97); Samuels Lasner 1995 (no.22).\r\n\r\nREPRODUCED: Le Morte Darthur, 1893-4 (p.254); Reade 1967 (plate 94).\r\n\r\nBeardsley inscribed the mount ‘To Miss Mallam from Aubrey Beardsley’.\r\nThe angels are seemingly detached from their wings, which suggests those in Evelyn de Morgan’s Love’s Passing (1883-4, Russell-Coates Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth, UK), of which Beardsley may have seen reproductions in the press when they were exhibited and for sale in 1892 at the 21st Liverpool Autumn Exhibition, no.887 (Gordon 1996, plate 23). 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