Art, Symbol & Imagination
How Sir Tristram Drank of the Love Drink: Beardsley
Two tall, robed figures face one another within a richly patterned rectangular frame. Tristram raises a cup, while Isolde stands opposite amid long curves and stylised floral forms. The integrated inscription names How Sir Tristram Drank of the Love Drink. Aubrey Beardsley designed the illustration for Malory’s Morte d’Arthur; Magica Sexualis reproduces it within a later collection of images about magic and desire.
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Aubrey Beardsley. "How Sir Tristram Drank of the Love Drink: Beardsley" [editorial title]. In Magica Sexualis, Émile Laurent and Paul Nagour. Privately printed; publication year not printed in inspected front matter, undated edition, Falstaff Press Inc.. Source scan leaf 296. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0105-0296
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Aubrey Beardsley. How Sir Tristram Drank of the Love Drink: Beardsley. Magica Sexualis. Scan leaf 296. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0105-0296