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Cinesias Entreating Myrrhina to Coition

1896

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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: Cinesias Entreating Myrrhina to Coition
Artist: Aubrey Beardsley
Date: 1896
Culture: British
Medium: Line block, from The Lysistrata of Aristophanes
Object type: Prints
Collection: Not recorded
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.0031
Original image: 1336 × 1868 px
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License evidence: See the license

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Aubrey Beardsley. Cinesias Entreating Myrrhina to Coition. 1896. Not recorded. Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0031/