2-880-276 - Shirley Markham Collection/Heritage Images

Frontispiece to "Plays" by John Davidson, 1893. Caricatures of notable figures of the day: Sir Augustus Harris (centre), the manager of the Covent Garden, Drury Lane and Her Majesty's theatres; a corpulent Oscar Wilde is portrayed as Bacchus; the nude woman beside him is Beardsley's actress sister Mabel; Henry Harland, American literary editor of the 'Yellow Book', is shown as a faun; the masked figure at the back is the poet Richard Le Gallienne, and the ballerina on the right is the dancer Adeline Genee. Illustration to "Plays" by John Davidson, [John Lane, 1894]. From "The Best of Beardsley" edited by R. A. Walker, [The Bodley Head, London, 1948]