Messalina Returning from the Bath (Unpublished illustration for "The Sixth Satire of Juvenal")

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, English, 1872 - 1898

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about 1896

Line-block print on paper

Image: 6 7/8 × 5 9/16 in. (17.4 × 14.2 cm)

Sheet: 12 × 9 in. (30.5 × 22.9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College

PR.917.12.4

Geography

Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe

Period

19th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Printed, in image, upper left: MESSALINA.

Exhibition History

Art 52, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 26, 1981-January 1982.

Provenance

Source unknown; catalogued, 1917.

Catalogue Raisonne

B. Reade, Beardsley, London: Studio Vista Ltd., 1967, p. 363, no. 483.

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