Herodias's Page
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: 3 1/2 × 2 3/8 in. (8.9 × 6 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 number2015-5.6
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextMoser has singled out two secondary characters for individual portraits - the young Syrian and Herodias's Page. The two are presented on the page in diptych format. Wilde’s drama includes a veritable melting pot of race and religious denomination, representative of this moment in biblical history—Syrians, Jews, Samaritans and more. Moser’s representations help to separate out these various interest groups with identifying attributes.
