Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Billet-Doux
A young woman sits beneath a curling ornamental headboard with a small written object before her. Broad pillows and the patterned border frame her carefully arranged hair and ruff. The source’s list of drawings names The Billet-Doux at the opening of the first canto.
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Aubrey Beardsley. "The Billet-Doux" [editorial title]. In The Rape of the Lock, Alexander Pope; illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. London: Leonard Smithers, 1896; five cantos with nine drawings by Aubrey Beardsley., 1896, Leonard Smithers. Source scan leaf 25. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0263-0013
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Aubrey Beardsley. The Billet-Doux. The Rape of the Lock. Scan leaf 25. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0263-0013