{"id":2449,"date":"2007-10-11T01:19:51","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T00:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2023-12-17T13:54:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T13:54:06","slug":"weirdsley-daubery-beardsley-and-punch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/10\/11\/weirdsley-daubery-beardsley-and-punch\/","title":{"rendered":"“Weirdsley Daubery”: Beardsley and Punch"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Britannia \u00e0 la Beardsley by ET Reed (1895). <\/em><\/p>\n

Pickings grow slim for the dedicated Beardsleyphile after you’ve bought a few books. Despite his prolific career, Aubrey B was dead at 25 and the better collections of his work, especially Brian Reade’s essential monograph, Beardsley<\/em> (1967), tend to contain almost his entire corpus, juvenilia and all. So you find yourself seeking out the work of his imitators, his successors, and even the weak but not altogether unsuccessful \u201cNichols\u201d fakes from the 1920s.<\/p>\n

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Yellow Book parody by ET Reed (1895). <\/em><\/p>\n

As well as being widely-imitated during his brief lifetime, Beardsley’s work came under fire from the writers and artists at Punch<\/em> who’d already spent nearly a decade throwing barbs at Oscar Wilde and his circle. \u201cWeirdsley Daubery\u201d was one of a number of plays on Beardsley’s name; \u201cDanby Weirdsley<\/a>\u201d and \u201cMortarthurio Whiskerley<\/a>\u201d were others. The art parodies are mentioned frequently in appraisals but one rarely gets to see examples of them so it’s good to find a couple of websites that have a decent selection. Beardsley’s style was so distinctive it was very easy for the Punch<\/em> artists to caricature and at least a couple of these are better than the younger artists who were dedicating themselves to copying his work. ET Reed\u2014who seems to have produced the majority of the drawings\u2014and Linley Sambourne were two of the artists involved.<\/p>\n

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Quid Est Pictura \u2013 Veritas Falsa by unidentified artist (1894). <\/em><\/p>\n

The best copies can be found two thirds down this page<\/a>. Nice that they give the issue details as well. I’ve seen bound copies of Punch<\/em> for 1894 and 1895 on many occasions but didn’t realise there was so much Beardsleyesque work in them; now I know what to look out for.<\/p>\n

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Britannia \u00e0 la Beardsley by ET Reed (1895). Pickings grow slim for the dedicated Beardsleyphile after you’ve bought a few books. Despite his prolific career, Aubrey B was dead at 25 and the better collections of his work, especially Brian Reade’s essential monograph, Beardsley (1967), tend to contain almost his entire corpus, juvenilia and all. … Continue reading ““Weirdsley Daubery”: Beardsley and Punch”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,50,30,48,43],"tags":[785,798,116,123],"class_list":["post-2449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-beardsley","category-black-white","category-illustrators","category-magazines","tag-alla-nazimova","tag-brian-reade","tag-oscar-wilde","tag-salome"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-Dv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}