3-101-080 - "Royal Academy of Arts, London"/Heritage Images

Cul De Lampe, 1907. The dead naked body of Salome is laid in a coffin decorated with roses. She is carried by a black-garbed pierrot with extravagant hair, and a faun-like figure. On the right is an over-sized powder puff. A cul-de-lampe is a typographic ornament marking the end of a section of text. Illustration from "Salome: a tragedy in one act / translated from the French of Oscar Wilde ; with sixteen drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. [John Lane, London ; New York: 1907] (facing p.[66]).