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For many artists and designers the Japanese influence became
intertwined with various major movements of the nineteenth century,
particularly Aestheticism, Impressionism and Art Nouveau. However, some
of the most interesting forms of expression are to be found in the fusion of
Japonisme with the Gothic, especially in much of the work by Aubrey
Beardsley (also inspired by the Medievalist Edward Burne-Jones and
Aesthete J. A. M. Whistler, Figs 29 & 30), in which we see both the
adoption of Japanese techniques applied to the woodblock print and a
Japanesque style. Another notable figure in regard to this aspiration was
Edward William Godwin.
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Figure 29: Aubrey Beardsley, How King Arthur Saw the Questing Beast, 1893
Figure 30: Aubrey Beardsley
Frontispiece to The Wonderful History of Virgilius the Sorcerer of Rome
(Published by David Nutt), 1893
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