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Black ink drawing of a border for the title page of Oscar Wilde’s Salome.

Black and white ink drawing of an intricate floral page border surrounding an empty rectangular space in the top right corner. A hermaphroditic horned figure emerges from the vines, flanked by two lit candles. A winged being kneels before them, hands pressed together as if praying. A moth-like creature appears in the lower right corner. Faint graphite inscription in the rectangular space reads “SALOME by OSCAR WILDE [...]”.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.653
People
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, British (Brighton, England 1872 - 1898 Menton, France)
Title
Border Design for Title Page; verso: incomplete border
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Salome
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1893
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297897

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite
Dimensions
22.6 x 17.2 cm (8 7/8 x 6 3/4 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Zatlin 862

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.653
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Joseph Pennell, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Original Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley, exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY, 1923), no. 22
  • Jeffrey Wallen, "Illustrating Salome: Perverting the Text?", Word and Image (April 1992 - June 1992), vol. 8, no. 2, repr. fig. 1
  • Chris Snodgrass, Aubrey Beardsley: Dandy of the Grotesque, Oxford University Press (NY) and Oxford University Press (UK) (New York, NY and Oxford, England, 1995), fig. 2-10, pp. 57-58
  • Mark Samuels Lasner, "The Pursuit of the Rare: Three Early Beardsley Collectors", Gazette of the Grolier Club (2000), no. 51, p. 17, note 34
  • Chikashi Kitazaki and Mina Oya, ed., Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, 2002), cat. no. 48-1, repr. (color)
  • Knut Ljøgodt, "Prerafaelittene: En introduksjon", Kunst og Kultur (2003), no. 1, pp. 2-10, p. 8, ill. 6 [English summary p. 10]
  • Linda Gertner Zatlin, Aubrey Beardsley: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2016), vol. 2, no. 862, pp. 6, 10, 11, 13-14, 19, 32, repr. p. 12

Exhibition History

  • An Exhibition of Original Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley, Brooklyn Museum, 12/19/1923 - 01/31/1924; Milwaukee Art Institute, 10/01/1924 - 10/30/1924; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, 11/01/1924 - 11/30/1924; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, 11/29/1924 - 12/31/1924
  • Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 09/14/2002 - 12/08/2002
  • 32Q: 2130 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/14/2019 - 07/18/2019

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