The Moon
Date2011
Artist
Barry Moser
(American illustrator, painter, printmaker, and author, born 1940)
Illustration CitationSalomé: A Tragedy in One Act by Oscar Wilde, translated by Joseph Donohue (University of Virginia Press 2011)
MediumWood engraving
Dimensionscomposition: 7 × 4 1/2 in. (17.8 × 11.4 cm)
sheet: 9 3/8 × 6 in. (23.8 × 15.2 cm)
sheet: 9 3/8 × 6 in. (23.8 × 15.2 cm)
Credit LineAcquisition Fund, 2015
Object number2015-5.4
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextIn Wilde’s drama the moon serves as an indicator of Salomé’s progress towards her ultimate fate, noted within the very first exchange between the Young Syrian and Herodias’s Page. Wilde wrote, “My Salomé is a mystic, the sister of Salammbô, a Sainte Thérèse who worships the moon.”
