Plate I · The Masque of the Red Death
Shown as the print file we send to the printer, not a photograph.
No. 003 / dark academia
Tales of Mystery
Aubrey Beardsley · 1894 · after Poe
Three rooms in the house of Poe.
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The object
In 1894 Aubrey Beardsley drew four plates for a Chicago edition of Poe's tales, in the clean black line that made him notorious. We have taken three, the masque, the house of Usher and the Rue Morgue, and inverted them, so the ink becomes a white line drawn on the dark.
The plates
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IThe Masque of the Red Death
- Artist
- Aubrey Beardsley
- Date
- 1894
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and India ink over graphite
- Original
- Sheet, 25.4 × 16.2 cm
IIThe Fall of the House of Usher
- Artist
- Aubrey Beardsley
- Date
- 1894
- Medium
- Pen, brush and India ink over graphite
- Original
- Sheet, 25.4 × 16.2 cm
IIIThe Murders in the Rue Morgue
- Artist
- Aubrey Beardsley
- Date
- 1894
- Medium
- Pen, brush and India ink over graphite
- Original
- Sheet, 25.4 × 16 cm