Salome, a Tragedy in One Act: Translated from the French, 1894

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Medium

bound volume with thirteen lineblock illustrations

Dimensions

book: 21.7 x 15.7 x 1.6 cm (8 9/16 x 6 3/16 x 5/8 in.)
plate: 20.9 x 15.1 cm (8 1/4 x 5 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Catalogue Raisonné

Reade 1967, no. 271, State -290

Accession Number

2007.99.1

Artists / Makers

Aubrey Beardsley (artist) British, 1872 - 1898

Oscar Wilde (artist) Irish, 1854 - 1900

Carl Hentschel (engraver) British, 1864 - 1930

Image Use

on first blank in graphite on upper right: 3500-; lower right: PB.2397; back page lower center in graphite: 26

Walter Leon Sawyer, Boston, 1897; (Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.); purchased 2007 by NGA.

Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.

2008: Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 139 b.

1967: Reade, Brian. Aubrey Beardsley [by] Brian Reade. Introd. by John Rothenstein. New York: Bonanza Books, 1967.