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Pen and ink drawing with two scenes: a cloaked knight in a meadow by a tree, and women leaning over a brick tower wall, in black-line ornamental border.

Study for How a Devil in Woman's Likeness Would Have Tempted Sir Bors

A pen and ink study in black on cream paper, split into two framed scenes with ornamental arabesque borders. At left, a cloaked knight stands in a flowering meadow beneath a tall tree; at right, a line of elaborately coiffed women leans over a crenellated tower wall while a sinuous figure reaches out below.

Artist
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
Date
1893
Medium
Pen and black ink, with brush and black wash, over graphite, on tan wove paper
Source
Art Institute of Chicago
Size
1686 × 1146 px
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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1893).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of James Deering

Español: Estudio para Cómo un Diablo con Forma de Mujer Tentaría a Sir Bors

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