Enter Herodias
Print
1893 (drawn), 1907 (printed)
1893 (drawn), 1907 (printed)
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Black and white print depicting four figures, including the statuesque queen Herodias in the centre with bare breasts and billowing hair, a naked androgynous figure of a page wearing a large fig leaf, a jester-type owl-capped figure in the bottom right (a caricature of Oscar Wilde), and a foetus-headed grotesque attendant to the left of the image. Phallic motifs can be seen in the sconces of the candlestick in the lower frieze of the design.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Line block print |
| Brief description | Line block print of an illustration by Aubrey Beardsley, 'Enter Herodias', plate V for Oscar Wilde's 'Salome', 1893. Printed in Germany, 1907. |
| Physical description | Black and white print depicting four figures, including the statuesque queen Herodias in the centre with bare breasts and billowing hair, a naked androgynous figure of a page wearing a large fig leaf, a jester-type owl-capped figure in the bottom right (a caricature of Oscar Wilde), and a foetus-headed grotesque attendant to the left of the image. Phallic motifs can be seen in the sconces of the candlestick in the lower frieze of the design. |
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| Production type | Mass produced |
| Literary reference | Oscar Wilde's Salome |
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| Accession number | C.22146:9 |
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| Record created | May 4, 2016 |
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