The death of Salomé
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 number2015-5.24
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextIn a dramatically foreshortened composition, a shield extends across the bottom half of the image leading the eye back to where Salomé lays, head to head with Iokanaan. The shield, which appeared first in the vignette on the title page, is now redeployed in the closing illustration.
