The Masque of the Red Death, for Edgar Allan Poe’s “Tales of Mystery and the Imagination,” Chicago, 1895-96
Object type: Drawing
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Edgar Allan Poe|Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
Artist bio: American, Boston, Massachusetts 1809–1849 Baltimore, Maryland|British, Brighton, Sussex 1872–1898 Menton
Artist role: Author|Artist
Artist nationality: American|British
Date: 1894
Medium: Pen, brush and India ink over graphite
Dimensions: Sheet: 10 in. × 6 3/8 in. (25.4 × 16.2 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2020
Accession year: 2021