This offering is a museum piece:

Exact same piece, from the same edition, is owned by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Museum number: E.435-1972

Notorious Beardsley Illustrations for Oscar Wilde's "Salome" – PL XII "Toilette of Salome-1 –

From Scarce 1907 Folio Portfolio of 17 Exhibition-Size Plates 

Original Folio Sized (11"x14") Line Block Print on Japanese Vellum from the “Salome” Portfolio of 17 Beardsley Art Plates Published by John Lane in London in 1907.

– Not a copy or modern reprint –

See the incredible detail captured in these original plates.

Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) received his first commission in 1894. His short career lasted from this commission to his tragically early death of tuberculosis in 1898 at the age of 25. Beardsley is principally known for his work as a book illustrator. With little formal art training he evolved a unique style, characterized by black and white work and delicate line drawing. He combined this with an unconventional approach to illustration where he did not slavishly follow the text but gave full rein to his imagination: this was particularly the case with Salome. Beardsley placed aesthetic interpretation over historical correctness, preferring the illustrations to be, as he said, 'simply beautiful but irrelevant'.

New Conservation Framing – Including custom black over gold leaf wood frame, 8ply museum mat, UV acrylic – wired and ready to hang.