IV. The Sitting of the Council, under the presidency of the Burgomaster.
V. Deputation of Ladies.
VI. Two rats on their hind legs, carrying off the Beadle's mace: behind
them are three rats running. Reproduced in _Westminster Budget_,
March 25, 1898.
VII. Meeting between the Beadle and the Piper.
VIII. The rats follow the Piper out of the town. Republished in
_Westminster Budget_, March 25, 1898, and in _The Poster_,
Aug.-Sept. 1898.
IX. Citizens rejoice at the departure of the rats.
X. The Piper is dismissed by the Beadle. Republished in _Westminster
Budget_, March 25, 1898, and also in _Magazine of Art_, May 1898.
XI. The Piper entices away the children.
The above illustrations vary in size from 3-1/4 x 2-1/2 to 6-1/2
x 4-1/2 inches. They are unsigned, but a prefatory note describes
them as being "the perfectly original designs and drawings of a
boy now in the school, A. V. Beardsley"; and adds: "Our regret is
that, lacking experience in the preparation of drawings for the
photo-engraver, the reproductions should fall so far short of the
original sketches." Published in the programme and book of words
of the Brighton Grammar School Annual Entertainment at the Dome,
on Wednesday, Dec, 19, 1888; bound up afterwards with _Past and
Present_, February 1889. Latter part of 1888.
13. A SCRAP-BOOK, size 9-1/2 x 7 inches, the fly-leaf inscribed, in his
own writing, _A. Beardsley_, 6/5/90, presented by the artist's
mother to Robert Ross, Esq. Contains the following drawings, mounted
as scraps:----
I. Manon Lescaut, three drawings to illustrate different scenes
from. Executed with very fine pen and ink, the latter having, as
compared with maturer works, a brownish tinge. One of them first
appeared in "A Second Book of Fifty Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley"
(Leonard Smithers, December 1898), and all three were included in
"The Later Work of Aubrey Beardsley" (John Lane, 1901).
II. La Dame aux Camelias. 4-3/8 inches square, pen and brownish
ink with wash. First published in "Second Book," and afterwards in
"Later Work." This is a totally different design from that which
afterwards appeared, with the same title, in "The Yellow Book."
See below.
III. Tartarin, two illustrations of, in pencil and colours, size
4-1/8 x
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