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In a room with boldly decorated swagged curtains to left, and a balustrade glimpsed through an arch at extreme right, a male figure (the favourite slave) lies dead beside a pile of floor cushions with geometric designs. Standing to the right are a woman, Zobeida, and a man, Shahryar, wearing Asian-inspired costume. Zobeida plunges a dagger into her breast.  \n\nTitled beneath the image: \"Scheherazade.  (Scene from the Russian Ballet).  Drawn by W. S. Lakeman.  Copyright, C. W. Beaumont & Co. London.\"\n\nThe print is a testimony to the enduring popularity of Mikhail Fokine's Scheherazade,  The designs are clearly 'after' Leon Bakst, whose  bold colours and decorative motifs, created as much a sensation as the subject-matter and choreography.  There were innumerable prints 'after' Scheherazade and this in black and white hints at Bakst's own debt to Beardsley in his graphic style and erotic overtones.","physicalDescription":"In a room with boldly decorated swagged curtains to left, and a balustrade glimpsed through an arch at extreme right, a male figure lies dead beside a pile of floor cushions with geometric designs. Standing to the right, a woman and a man wearing Asian-inspired costume, she with her right arm extended towards the man, whose back is turned on her, while the left plunges a dagger into her breast.  Titled beneath the image: \"Scheherazade.  (Scene from the Russian Ballet).  Drawn by W. S. Lakeman.  Copyright, C. W. Beaumont & Co. London.\"","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Lakeman, W S","id":"A5304"},"association":{"text":"Print-maker","id":"AAT25164"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"C. W. 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