Sword and Shield, Title page
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 × 2 in. (10.2 × 5.1 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 number2015-5.3
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextMoser’s design for the title page serves as visual synthesis of the drama. The sword of Iokanaan’s executioner and the shield on which it was conveyed to Salomé, but also an allusion to Salomé’s fate, crushed beneath the soldier’s armor.
