![]() ![]() It comes from the folio of reproductions made from Beardsley's original drawings and published in about 1929. The collotype print in the Victoria and Albert Museum was made after Beardsley's frontispiece illustration of 1896 to the Lysistrata of Aristophanes. To the left stands a garlanded Priapic herm. Her right hand shields her genitals, whilst with her left, she adorns a giant phallus with an olive branch. One of the eight drawings, the present black and white print, shows a woman wearing a flounced negligé, slippers and a diaphanous dress that exposes her right breast. Lysistrata was the last of his four major works of illustration, which are all the more astonishing for being so different from each other. He used a development of the style of the Salome drawings, purified and refined and possibly influenced by Greek vase painting. In 1896, Beardsley completed eight large drawings illustrating Aristophanes's bawdy Greek comedy Lysistrata. ![]()
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