Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Battle of the Beaux and the Belles
A company of elaborately dressed men and women fills a curtained interior. Fans, raised hands and turned faces make their confrontation a theatre of manners. The source’s drawing list identifies The Battle of the Beaux and the Belles beside the fifth canto’s mock-heroic combat.
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Aubrey Beardsley. "The Battle of the Beaux and the Belles" [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 69. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0263-0057
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Aubrey Beardsley. The Battle of the Beaux and the Belles. The Rape of the Lock. Scan leaf 69. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0263-0057