Art Print
The Black Cape (Salomé, 1894)
The most famous dress in illustration — and it is one black shape. Beardsley for Wilde’s Salomé, 1894.
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Aubrey Beardsley — The Black Cape
Aubrey Beardsley — The Black Cape
The most famous dress in illustration — and it is one black shape.
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The most famous dress in illustration — and it is one black shape.
About the print
Beardsley drew this for the first English edition of Oscar Wilde's Salomé (1894). He worked only in black ink and white paper — no half-tones, no shading, just the nerve of a line and the drama of a solid black mass (here, the cape). That is already a one-colour print: we lay a single black ink and let the bare fabric be every white detail.
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About the artist
Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898) redefined illustration in a career of barely six years before tuberculosis killed him at 25. His black-and-white line — decadent, precise, made for reproduction — scandalized Victorian England. Nothing has looked quite like it since.
Aubrey Beardsley · The Black Cape, for Salomé, 1894 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Public domain
Care — Machine wash cold, inside out. Tumble dry low. Do not iron directly on the print.
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Materials & Fit
PrintScreen-printed
Fabric100% combed cotton
Weight5.3 oz / 180 gsm · midweight
FitRegular fit, pre-shrunk
ConstructionSide-seamed · shoulder-to-shoulder tape · double-needle hems
BlankAS Colour Staple 5001
Made byReal Thread, USA
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