The angel of death
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 3/16 × 4 5/8 in. (18.3 × 11.7 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 number2015-5.12
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextUpon confronting Salomé, Iokanaan prophesizes, “I hear in the palace the beating wings of the angel of death.” Herod will also perceive the beating of wings just before the fated bargain is made with Salomé. The androgyny of the figure conveys an element of eroticism that is comparable to Beardsley’s illustrations.
