Aubrey Beardsley originally created this thistle design as a bookplate. Known as one of the most celebrated book and periodical Art Nouveau illustrators of the Victorian era, Aubrey Beardsley was born in Brighton,England in 1872 in an atmosphere of gentile poverty. Before the age of ten he had contracted tuberculosis which was the cause of his premature death at the age of twenty-five. His work was heavily influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites. In this illustration, Beardsley created a stylized thistle with flower heads at the very top. Leaves and tendrils descend to the plant at the base.
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