Cover Design to Sappho, 1895. Lyre motif, illustration for "Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings and a Literal Translation", by Henry Thornton Wharton, on the work of the Greek lyric poet. Her poems were written to be sung while accompanied by music. From "The Best of Beardsley" edited by R. A. Walker, [The Bodley Head, London, 1948]

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