2-705-601 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Toilet of Helen', 1890s, (1935). A bare-breasted Helen sits at the dressing-table as a veiled woman attends to her hair. Grotesque dwarf figures fight in the foreground. From "Under the Hill", an erotic story written and illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. [John Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd, 1896]. Published in "Modern Masterpieces", Part 8. [George Newnes Ltd, London, 1935]