Beardsley

American  

[beerdz-lee] / ˈbɪərdz li /

noun

1. Aubrey Vincent, 1872–98, English illustrator.

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Beardsley British  

/ ˈbɪədzlɪ /

noun

1. Aubrey ( Vincent ). 1872–98, English illustrator: noted for his stylized black-and-white illustrations, esp those for Oscar Wilde's Salome and Pope's Rape of the Lock

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Example Sentences

Margaret B. Stetz’s essay on the British illustrator Aubrey Beardsley illuminates this development.

From The Wall Street Journal

Though he created prints and illustrations, Beardsley “chafed at being called an illustrator,” Ms. Stetz writes.

From The Wall Street Journal

The collection includes late Victorian and Edwardian gift-book illustrations, which show how the divide between illustrator and artist remained permeable through World War I. Ashley Rye-Kopec and Amanda T. Zehnder, in their respective essays on Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac, demonstrate how those artists, like Beardsley, reinterpreted the texts they illustrated—and then exhibited their illustrations in art galleries.

From The Wall Street Journal

Gillespie recalled how the "balance of the team changed" as the Northern Irishman dropped out and Peter Beardsley moved over to the right.

From BBC

On Sept. 13, 2007, he assembled a rogue’s gallery of ex-cons to confront memorabilia dealers Bruce Fromong and Alfred Beardsley, whom an intermediary had lured to a room at the Palace Station Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

From Los Angeles Times