Aubrey Beardsley's Works in Art and Literature: A Preliminary List

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Designs and grotesques

  • Chloe
  • Grotesque head
  • Grotesque monster with peacock feather
  • Initial Design for the decorated spine of J. M. Dent's edition of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur

Illustrations for Malory, Morte d' Arthur, 1893-94

  • Peacock (chapter heading)
  • Merlin
  • Merlin & Nimue
  • a Beale Isoud at Joyous Gard
  • Headpiece
  • The Achieving of the Sangreal
  • How Sir Tristram drank of the love drink
  • Satyr (chapter heading)
  • Figure with long hair (chapter heading)

Illustrations for Salome, 1894

  • "J'ai baisé ta bouche Iokanaan"
  • The Woman in the Moon
  • The Peacock Skirt
  • The Black Cape
  • The Platonic Lament
  • Enter Herodias
  • The Eyes of Herod
  • The Stomach Dance
  • The Toilette (version 1)
  • The Toilette (published version)
  • John and Salome
  • The Climax
  • The Dancer's Reward
  • Salome on Settle
  • Cover design (peacock feathers)
  • Design for tailpiece
  • Beardsley's emblematic signature

Illustrations for Pope, The Rape of the Lock, 1896

  • Belinda in bed
  • The Cave of Spleen
  • Cutting the lock of hair

Illustrations for Under the Hill (Venus and Tannhäuser)

  • Tannhäuser
  • Venus at her toilet

Illustrations for Ernest Dowson's "Pierot of the Minute," 1899

  • Half Title
  • Frontispiece
  • Heading
  • Cul de Lampe

Miscellaneous

  • Juvenal -- [Punch parody]
  • "The Coiffing" (from "The Ballad of a Barber"), 1896

Portraits and Caricatures

  • Caricature Self-Portrait
  • Punch's parody of Beardley's "Juvenal"
  • Punch's parody of The Yellow Book

Beardsley's Writings

  • "The Ballad of a Barber," 1896
  • The Story of Venus and Tannhäuser, 1907 (the first three chapters appeared as "Under the Hill" in the 1896 Savoy)

Pseudo-Beardsleys

  • Forgeries and Misattributions

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