Features

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  Aubrey Beardsley – decadence & desire

  "I have one aim – the grotesque. If I am not grotesque, I am nothing"
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  Costume for Salome, performed by the Ballets Russes

  Inspired by the explicit illustrations created by Aubrey Beardsley for Oscar Wilde's play Salome, this…
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  The Whiplash

  multiple forms, as can be seen in these highlights of the V&A's collection: At the tender age of 21, Aubrey…
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  Art Nouveau and the erotic

  distributed in Europe, many Art Nouveau artists possessed them, including the Engliah illustrator and author Aubrey…
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  Frederick Hollyer – Life and Work

  fashions of the 1890s dandy aesthete can be seen in some of Hollyer's portraits, including the artist Aubrey…

Collections

• Collection

  Illustration

  Highlights include work by Aubrey Beardsley, Beatrix Potter, Arthur Rackham, Quentin Blake, Posy Simmonds…
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  Art Nouveau

  The seductive drawings of Aubrey Beardsley, the curvaceous architecture of Victor Horta and Paul Hankar…

Objects

What's On

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  Past Event

  Lunchtime Lectures: The Strange Queerness of Aubrey Beardsley

  V&A South Kensington

  This talk is part of the V&A Academy Lunchtime Lecture Series. No booking is required.
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  Past Event

  Lunchtime Lecture: Walking in a Printed Wonderland

  V&A South Kensington

  21st century printmaking and posters, and currently working on an international touring exhibition of Aubrey…
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  Past Event

  How Queer Everything Is To-day: Who is the Mad Hatter?

  V&A South Kensington

  historian and curator Stephen Calloway in 'The Art of Being a Dandy', a short film for Tate Britain's Aubrey…
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  Past Event

  Curator Talk: Costume for Salome, performed by the Ballets Russes

  V&A South Kensington

  Inspired by the explicit illustrations created by Aubrey Beardsley for Oscar Wilde's play Salome, this…

About us and our work

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  Info

  Collection Selection Boxes – Art Nouveau

  The drawings of Aubrey Beardsley in England, the architecture of Victor Horta and Paul Hankar in Brussels…

From the Blog

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  The V&A Illustration Awards 2022 are now open

  join the V&A’s outstanding collections of illustration, including works by renowned artists such as Aubrey…
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  Wartime fairy tales

  developed his fantastical style, his work showing influences ranging from Dürer and German Romanticism to Aubrey…
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  Sam Bakewell, current Ceramics Resident, explores our collections

  As would work from the Print, Drawings & Paintings archives; Leonard Baskin’s raptor prints, Aubrey Beardsley…
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  All we want for Christmas…

  swept up in ‘Salomania’ and I love all of the Salome related products we have on offer, whether our Aubrey…
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  St. George’s Day – Dragons in the Prints, Drawings and Paintings Collection

  The drawing below by Aubrey Beardsley shows the brave Siegfried standing beside a sinuous dragon with…