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

1894

Aubrey Beardsley (artist) and Oscar Wilde (author)

Associated Names
Aubrey Beardsley

Artist, British, 1872 - 1898

Oscar Wilde

Artist, Irish, 1854 - 1900

Carl Hentschel

Engraver, British, 1864 - 1930

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with thirteen lineblock illustrations

  • Credit Line

    William B. O'Neal Fund

  • 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.)

  • Accession Number

    2007.99.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Reade 1967, no. 271, State -290

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2008

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

Bibliography

1967

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

Inscriptions

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

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