Copeland & Day, Elkin Mathews & John Lane, Aubrey Beardsley, Salome. A Tragedy in One Act by Oscar Wilde, illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, line etching, total: height: 20.80 cm; width: 15.00 cm, Beardsley logo: three vertical strokes, under the middle dot, illustrations, Salome (daughter of Herodias), ornaments, flowers, art nouveau, The one-act drama by Oscar Wilde about the king's daughter Salome, who demands from her stepfather Herod the killing of the prophet John the Baptist, first appeared in French in 1893. The English edition, published one year later, contains for the first time the illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, which achieve great fame. Beardsley, like Oscar Wilde a convinced dandy, cultivates a completely new style: a graphic aesthetic in black and white, with which he translates ugliness, sexuality and perversion into a magical, exotic and strange-looking sphere.
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