Tigellinus
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: 2 3/4 × 4 5/8 in. (7 × 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 number2015-5.16
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextTigellinus, a representative of Caesar’s court, has only a small part in the play, in this instance, as a foil for Herod’s meandering query regarding the suicide of the Young Syrian. He is portrayed as a youthful, toga-clad sophisticate of the Roman court, in marked contrast to Herod’s disillusioned depravity.
