Discover the art of Aubrey Beardsley with this collection of 9 images from 'Rape of the Lock' from 1896.
This download features 9 hi-res images, in jpeg format, that are all 600dpi and range in size from 2196 pixels wide/tall to 7656 pixels wide/tall.
The poem 'The Rape of the Lock' by Alexander Pope satirises a minor incident of life (Petre had cut off a lock of Arabella's hair without permission), by comparing it to the epic world of the gods. The poem's title does not refer to sexual rape, but to an earlier definition of the word derived from the Latin 'rapere', which means 'to snatch, to grab, to carry off'.
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.
