Henry Weston Keen | Skull Crowned with Snakes and Flowers (for "The Duchess of Malfi") | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Keen worked as a printmaker and illustrator in the 1920s and 1930s, creating unsettling symbolist images reminiscent of Aubrey Beardsley. Two significant commissions were designs for luxury editions published by The Bodley Head–a firm that had launched Beardsley in the 1890s–Oscar Wilde's "Picture of Dorian Gray" (1925) and John Webster's "The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi" (1930)

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Henry Weston Keen | Skull Crowned with Snakes and Flowers (for "The Duchess of Malfi") | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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