Original photograph of Beardsley working in the Menton hotel room where he later died. Lengthy inscription by Max Beerbohm dated 1925 on verso: "This photograph of Aubrey Beardsley was taken in the bedroom of an hotel at Mentone [sic] -- the room in which he died. It was given to me either by his mother or by his sister. The Mantegnas are a queer contrast with the wall-paper and the furniture; the contrast must have delighted him greatly. Tragically frail and dying tho' he looks here, my memory is that he looked hardly less so when I first met him. Max Beerbohm, 1925." Purchase, David Magee, 1961 (MS.1961.015).