Art, Symbol & Imagination
A Platonic Lament
A dark-haired figure bends over a long pale body stretched across the black foreground. A narrow ornamental column rises behind the mourner above a small watching creature. Beardsley’s title A Platonic Lament gives the intimate arrangement its elegiac mood within the Salomé sequence.
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Aubrey Beardsley. "A Platonic Lament" [editorial title]. In Salome, Oscar Wilde; English translation from the French, with sixteen drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. Supplied illustrated edition from John Lane, The Bodley Head; John Lane Company, undated edition, John Lane, The Bodley Head; John Lane Company. Source scan leaf 53. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/beardsley-salome-platonic-lament
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
From Aubrey Beardsley’s illustration cycle for Oscar Wilde’s one-act tragedy. The scanned 1907 plate retains its complete composition, border and paper tone. The browsing title follows the volume’s list of pictures.
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Aubrey Beardsley. A Platonic Lament. Salome. Scan leaf 53. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/beardsley-salome-platonic-lament