FREDERICK EVANS (1853-1943)

细节

FREDERICK EVANS (1853-1943)

Aubrey Beardsley, 1894

Two portraits comprising a platinum print, 5 3/8 x 3 7/8in. and a photogravure, 4 7/8 x 3¾in., each tipped-in at top corners and mounted on buff paper with photographer's blindstamp monogram and with gilt paper borders, mounted face-to-face in grey paper folder, attached tissue guard, brown paper label signed and inscribed in ink Aubrey Beardsley Portraits by Frederick H. Evans - 20 sets only - 8 on cover, 4to. (2)

出版

Newhall, Frederick H. Evans, pp. 9, 10 and 11 (illus.); Rogers, Camera Portraits, pp. 140 and 141 (illus.)

拍品专文

Aubrey Beardsley, the young yet undiscovered illustrator who at the time was working for the Guardian Insurance Company, was a frequent visitor to Evans's bookshop on Queen Street, Cheapside, London. Beardsley had shown his drawings to Evans who then recommended him as illustrator to the publisher John M. Dent. It was through this introduction that Beardsley was asked to illustrate Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. The two became friends and this portrait was made in the summer of 1894. Beaumont Newhall in his monograph Frederick Evans mentions the sitting and a friend of the two who remembered that Evans "spent....hours wandering around the gaunt youth, wondering what on earth to do with him, when Beardsley, getting tired, relaxed and took the pose which Evans immediately seized" (The Photographic Journal, Feb., 1945, p.36). Beardsley wrote to Evans (Aug., 20th, 1894) "I think the photos are splendid; couldn't be better. I am looking forward to getting my copies".