Herod, drunk, pleading with Salomé to dance
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: 4 1/2 × 4 5/8 in. (11.4 × 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 number2015-5.20
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextHerod’s leering stare, his cup tilted in opposition to his body, foretells of the impending disaster. His diagonal placement suggests the lurching gate of a drunken man, well on the road to perdition. Here again, Moser’s method of leaving a portion of the plate blank elevates the drama. 
