Enter Herodias

Enter Herodias
Enter Herodias

Enter Herodias

Date1906
Artist (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 3/4 × 6 5/16 in. (22.2 × 16 cm)
sheet: 13 5/16 × 10 5/16 in. (33.8 × 26.2 cm)
Credit LineAcquisition Fund, 2010
Object number2010-31.9
On View
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ClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThis powerfully unsettling illustration pertains to the moment just after the Young Syrian, besotted with Salomé, has taken his own life in despair over her infatuation with Iokanaan. Herodias is portrayed as a demon with overly large breasts and swelling hair accompanied by a ghoulish cast of characters—an embryonic figure on her right and a hermaphrodite on her left. At lower right, one of several portraits of Wilde is included in the guise of an impresario or conductor in the orchestra pit. Beardsley’s original conception did not include the shielding fig leaf.
The Woman in the Moon
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
1906
Title Page
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
1906
Sketch for Front Cover Design
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
1906
List of the Pictures
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
1906
The Peacock Skirt
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
1906
The Black Cape
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
1906
A Platonic Lament
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
1906
John and Salomé
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
1906
The Eyes of Herod
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
1906
The Stomach Dance
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
1906
The Toilette of Salomé—I
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
1906