Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Aubrey Beardsley NPG x4608

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Monsieur Abel

In November 1897 Beardsley and his mother travelled to Menton in the South of France. This photograph shows Beardsley at the Hotel Cosmopolitan reading in the room in which he died. His mother had filled the room with objects dear to him, including photographs of his beloved sister. The prominence of the crucifix indicates his conversion to Roman Catholicism earlier in the year. Beardsley recorded the taking of this photograph on 3 December 1897, three and a half months before his death, 'I had myself... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.