The Woman in the Moon
Date1906
Artist
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
(British draftsman, illustrator and writer, 1872–1898)
Illustration CitationA Portfolio of Aubrey Beardsley's drawings illustrating "Salome," by Oscar Wilde (John Lane: London, c. 1906)
MediumOffset lithograph
Dimensionscomposition: 8 × 6 1/4 in. (20.3 × 15.9 cm)
sheet: 13 7/16 × 10 1/4 in. (34.1 × 26 cm)
sheet: 13 7/16 × 10 1/4 in. (34.1 × 26 cm)
Credit LineAcquisition Fund, 2010
Object number2010-31.1
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThis illustration overtly references the first two lines of the poem in which the Young Syrian and Herodias’ Page note, “How strange the moon seems. She is like a woman rising from a tomb.” The moon is used by Wilde throughout the play as a metaphor for Salomé. The face in the moon is a (less than flattering) portrait of Wilde.
