Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Toilette of Salomé at the Dressing Table
A woman in a dark fitted gown stands beside narrow shelves of jars and bottles. A masked attendant and large curving mirror-like forms enclose the dressing space. Beardsley turns Salomé’s preparations into a contrast between the dense black garment and sparse surrounding line.
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Aubrey Beardsley. "The Toilette of Salomé at the Dressing Table" [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 95. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/beardsley-salome-toilette-clothed
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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 subtitle distinguishes this design visually; it does not equate the book’s I/II numbering with the order in which Beardsley drew the two versions.
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Aubrey Beardsley. The Toilette of Salomé at the Dressing Table. Salome. Scan leaf 95. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/beardsley-salome-toilette-clothed