2-880-228 - Shirley Markham Collection/Heritage Images

Mademoiselle de Maupin, 1897. 'For an intended edition of the book by Théophile Gautier, but published in a portfolio after the death of the artist' (Beardsley). Julie d'Aubigny, better known as Mademoiselle Maupin or La Maupin, was a 17th-century opera singer. From "The Best of Beardsley" edited by R. A. Walker, [The Bodley Head, London, 1948]