
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002686The Litany of Mary Magdalen
Provenance
William More Adey (1858-1942). Charles Deering (1852–1927), Chicago; by descent to his daughters, Mrs. Chauncey McCormick (née Marion Deering; 1886–1965), Chicago and Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson (née Barbara Deering; 1885–1957), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1927.
Exhibition history
University of Minnesota Gallery, "Interplay '80: The Roots of Conflict, 1890-1918." June 1-July 15,1980. London, Tate Britain, "Audrey Beardsley," Mar. 2-May 25, 2020; also Paris, Musée d'Orsay, June 16-Sept. 13, 2020, 51, p.81, cat. 35 (ill.).
Publications
Aubrey Beardsley, A Second Book of Fifty Drawings (Leonard Smithers: London, 1899) p. 91, no. 20 (ill.). A. E. Gallatin, Aubrey Beardsley: Catalogue of Drawings and Bibliography (The Grolier Club: New York, 1945), p. 26, no. 202. Hans Tietze, European Master Drawings in the United States (New York, 1947), pp. 310-11, no. 155 (ill.). Aubrey Beardsley, The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley (Da Capo Press: New York, 1967), no. 31 (ill.). Linda Gertner Zatlin, Aubrey Beardsley: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol.1 (New Haven and London, 2016), pp.108-09, no.198 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Aubrey Vincent Beardsley / English, 1872-1898
- Date
- 1891
- Medium
- Graphite on cream wove paper laid down on board
- Dimensions
- 22.7 × 16.9 cm (8 15/16 × 6 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- graphite
- Place
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Charles Deering Collection
- Accession no.
- 1927.2258
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