“My Lovely White Peacocks”
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 3/8 × 4 5/8 in. (8.6 × 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 number2015-5.22
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextToo late, Herod realizes the folly of his promise. He offers Salomé his dearest possessions, including fifty of his rare, gold-beaked white peacocks, but she remains resolute in her demand for Iokanaan’s head.
