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When Wilde saw Beardsley’s work, he inscribed a copy of <em>Salome</em> “for Aubrey,” calling him “the only artist” who could see the eponymous princess’s “invisible dance” of the seven veils, a performance said to have led to the execution of John the Baptist. Beardsley illustrated in full the 1894 edition of Wilde’s play, for which this cover design was created. The&nbsp; scrawled title echoes Wilde’s delighted description of Beardsley’s drawings as “the naughty scribbles a precocious schoolboy makes on the margins of his copybooks,” while the stylized peacock feathers function like a theater curtain, creating a sense of anticipation for the reader."]},"label":{"en":["Description"]}}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMANX22_1604/full/!350,350/0/default.jpg","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg","height":350,"width":267,"service":[{"id":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMANX22_1604","type":"ImageService3","profile":"level2"}]}],"viewingDirection":"left-to-right","behavior":["individuals"],"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["Princeton University Art Museum"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/about","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["Princeton Univesity Art Museum"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Princeton Univesity Art Museum Homepage"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/puam_logo/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg","height":64,"width ":200,"service":[{"@id":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/puam_logo","@type":"ImageService2","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}]}]}],"seeAlso":[{"id":"https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/87563","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Object Page in Online Collections Catalog"]},"format":"text/html"}],"partOf":[{"id":"https://data.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/objects/collection","type":"Collection"}],"items":[{"id":"https://data.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/objects/87563/canvas/87563-canvas-236229","type":"Canvas","height":7142,"width":5452,"items":[{"id":"https://data.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/objects/87563/page/87563-anno-236229","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://data.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/objects/87563/annotation/87563-anno-236229","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","target":"https://data.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/objects/87563/canvas/87563-canvas-236229","body":{"id":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMANX22_1604/full/max/0/default.jpg","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg","height":7142,"width":5452,"service":[{"@id":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/2/collection/PUAMANX22_1604","@type":"ImageService2","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},{"id":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMANX22_1604","type":"ImageService3","profile":"level2"}]}}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMANX22_1604/full/!350,350/0/default.jpg","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg","height":350,"width":267,"service":[{"id":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMANX22_1604","type":"ImageService3","profile":"level2"}]}],"label":{"en":["View 1"]}},{"id":"https://data.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/objects/87563/canvas/87563-canvas-236228","type":"Canvas","height":7208,"width":5452,"items":[{"id":"https://data.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/objects/87563/page/87563-anno-236228","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://data.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/objects/87563/annotation/87563-anno-236228","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","target":"https://data.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/objects/87563/canvas/87563-canvas-236228","body":{"id":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMANX22_1605/full/max/0/default.jpg","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg","height":7208,"width":5452,"service":[{"@id":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/2/collection/PUAMANX22_1605","@type":"ImageService2","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},{"id":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMANX22_1605","type":"ImageService3","profile":"level2"}]}}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMANX22_1605/full/!350,350/0/default.jpg","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg","height":350,"width":264,"service":[{"id":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMANX22_1605","type":"ImageService3","profile":"level2"}]}],"label":{"en":["View 2"]}}],"start":{"id":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMANX22_1604","type":"Canvas"}}