Discover the provocative and controversial art of Aubrey Beardsley with Lysistrata from 1896. These 15 illustrations challenged societal norms and cemented Beardsley's reputation as a bold and transgressive artist.
This download features 15 hi-res images, in jpeg format, that are all 300dpi or 600dpi and range in size from 1728 pixels wide/tall to 7764 pixels wide/tall.
Lysistrata is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, originally performed in classical Athensin 411 BC. It is a comic account of a woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian Warbetween Greek city statesby denying all the men of the land any sex, which was the only thing they truly and deeply desired. Lysistrata persuades the women of the warring cities to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace - a strategy, however, that inflames the battle between the sexes.
The pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you’d like, including commercial use.
The pictures in our art collections are out of copyright in both the UK and the United States. Both countries have had quite different copyright criteria up until recently so read our blog post about public domain copyright rules in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries.
