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The Peacock Skirt
Pen-and-ink illustration (1893) by Aubrey Beardsley. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. One of sixteen illustrations for Oscar Wilde's Salome (English edition, 1894). Depicts Salome in a trailing peacock-feather skirt.
Scholarly Significance
Canonical Beardsley illustration and most reproduced Art Nouveau graphic work from Britain.