Salome on [a] Settle, 1893. Alternative title: Maîtresse d'Orchestre. Salome, in a lace-edged black robe with a tassel which trails on the floor, holds a slim pointed object like a conductor's baton. Intended as an illustration for "Salome" by Oscar Wilde, [John Lane, 1894], but suppressed. From "The Best of Beardsley" edited by R. A. Walker, [The Bodley Head, London, 1948]

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