Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Toilet
A richly dressed woman sits before a mirror while an attendant stands behind her. Candles, bottles and minute ornament crowd the dressing table. The source identifies The Toilet beside Pope’s mock-heroic description of Belinda worshipping the cosmetic powers.
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Aubrey Beardsley. "The Toilet" [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 31. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0263-0019
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Aubrey Beardsley. The Toilet. The Rape of the Lock. Scan leaf 31. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0263-0019