- Museum number
- 1919,0412.1
- Description
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The toilette of Salome, illustration to the tragedy 'Salome'; female figure sitting in profile to right before a dressing table, head turned to left, maid standing beside her and attending to her hair. 1893
Pen and black ink, with black wash
- Production date
- 1893
- Dimensions
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Height: 227 millimetres
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Width: 162 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of the drawings made to illustrate 'Salome', a tragedy in one act: translated by Lord Alfred B Douglas, from the French of Oscar Wilde, pictured by Alfred Beardsley (London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894). In the book this drawing faced p.48, and was reproduced in a line block made by Carl Hentschel. It was a second version of the design, and replaced an earlier version, now in the collection of Edward James Matthews in New York, which was rejected (see Brian Reade, 'Aubrey Beardsley', London (Studio Vista) 1967, nos.281 and 287).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1904, London, Carfax & Co., 'Aubrey Beardsley', no.31
1911, Chicago, Art Institute, 'Aubrey Beardsley', no.41
1966, London, V&A, 'Aubrey Beardsley', no.361
1967, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, 'Aubrey Beardsley', no.154
1984, BM, 'Master Drawings and Watercolours', no. 192
1988/9 Dec-Jan, London, Sotheby's, 'Monet to Freud', no. 75
1991/2 Oct-Jan, London, Barbican AG, 'Japan and Britain 1850-1930', no.302
1992 Feb-Mar, Tokyo, Setagaya Museum, Japan and Britain 1850-1930, no.302
1995/6 Oct-Jan, Madrid, Mus Nat Reina Sofia, Salome: A Contemporary Myth
1997/8 Oct-Jan, London, Tate Gallery, Symbolism in Britain, no.89
1998 Jan-April, Munich, Haus der Kunst, Symbolism and Britain, no.89
2011 April-July, London, V&A, The Cult of Beauty
2011/12 Sep-Jan, Paris, Musée d'Orsay, The Cult of Beauty
2012 Mar-July, San Francisco, Fine Arts Museum, The Cult of Beauty
2020 4 Mar-20 Sep, London, Tate Britain, Aubrey Beardsley
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Salome
- Acquisition date
- 1919
- Acquisition notes
- Bequeathed by Robert Ross to the National Art Collections Fund for presentation to the BM. According to the register, it had belonged to Leonard Smithers in 1897, to Ross in 1902 and F.G.Wallace in 1903, from whom Ross had presumably re-purchased it.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1919,0412.1
