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Although the newspaper rejected Beardsley’s macabre rendition of the play’s final scene, his illustration was published in an issue of <em>Studio</em> magazine later that year. 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.","remarks":"K2 Corridor: “A Single Drop of Ink for a Mirror”: Nineteenth-Century British Literature and the Visual Arts"}],"datebegin":1906,"sortnumber":"1939   83xc","published_date":"2026-04-22 02:00:30.169931","objectid":87563,"dimensions":"image: 20.4 × 15.8 cm (8 1/16 × 6 1/4 in.)\r\nsheet: 33.8 × 26 cm (13 5/16 × 10 1/4 in.)","on_view":false}