Mata Hari as Salome

This illustration was drawn by Michael English; with Nigel Waymouth, half of design duo Hapshash and the Coloured Coat. In the late 1960s, they created psychedelic posters for many of the English bands of the time, and decorated and advertised Nigel Waymouth's King's Road boutique, Granny Takes a Trip. They also designed for concerts held at the UFO club and Saville Theatre, and for underground magazine Oz. Their influences came from the decorative and eroticised designs of Art Nouveau, combined with the melting rainbow colours of LSD visions and pop art inspirations from the post-war media; traces of Disney, horror movie monsters and comic book characters and can often be seen hiding amongst the images.

This illustration is of the Dutch courtesan and exotic dancer, Mata Hari, dressed as Salome. After the start of the First World War she was executed for being a spy in 1915.