Althea Gyles’s illustration for Oscar Wilde’s "Harlot’s House" (original) (raw)

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Althea Gyles

1904

Illustration for the one-volume publication of Oscar Wilde’s poem, “The Harlot’s House”

“Like wire-pulled automatons,
Slim silhouetted skeletons
Went sidling through the slow quadrille,

Then took each other by the hand,
And danced a stately saraband.”

• Oscar Wilde (homepage)
• Text of “The Harlot’s House”

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Bibliography

Wilde, Oscar. The Harlot's house: a poem by Oscar Wilde with five illustrations by Althea Gyles. London: Imprinted for subscribers at the Mathurin Press, 1904. Online version from Explore the British Library. Web. 3 November 2019.

Last modified 4 November 2019