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The Lacedemonian Ambassadors

1896 (Met impression c. 1926)

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The story

On 7 March 1898, dying, Beardsley begged his publisher Leonard Smithers to destroy all copies of Lysistrata and all obscene drawings. Smithers ignored him and kept selling reproductions, and forgeries too.

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Object details

Title: The Lacedemonian Ambassadors
Artist: Aubrey Beardsley
Date: 1896 (Met impression c. 1926)
Culture: British
Medium: Print, from The Lysistrata of Aristophanes
Object type: Prints
Collection: Not recorded
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License CC0 (CC0).
Object number: EFA.0030
Original image: 2003 × 2782 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

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Aubrey Beardsley. The Lacedemonian Ambassadors. 1896 (Met impression c. 1926). Not recorded. Image source Wikimedia Commons. License CC0 (CC0). In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0030/