Portrait of Aubrey Beardsley
name: label: maker
content: Evans, Frederick
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: As a bookshop owner, Frederick Evans met many interesting people as they frequented the store. He formed friendships with customers such as George Bernard Shaw, F. Holland Day, and Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley was a young writer and illustrator known for what was considered to be erotic subject matter. He was a character that attracted a lot of attention in his day and died from tuberculosis at the young age of 25 in 1898, only a few years after this portrait was made. Evans was friends with Beardsley and made the portrait to celebrate their friendship. An account of the making of this photograph states that Evans wandered around Beardsley for hours trying to figure out how to photograph him. Tired from sitting for all that time, Beardsley eventually took this pose and Evans quickly realized how he would capture him.
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.67.162
label: catalog number
content: 67.162
label: accession number
content: 272508
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 4 13/16 in x 3 5/8 in; 12.192 cm x 9.144 cm