Art, Symbol & Imagination
The King of China Visits Badoura: Edmund Dulac
Original caption: The King of China and Badoura
King Gaiour visits his daughter after she insists that a young man has vanished from her bed. The reader knows that the genies brought Camaralzaman to her during the night and that the lovers exchanged rings, but her attendants know nothing of the encounter. Having previously called Badoura mad to excuse her refusal of a powerful suitor, the king now mistakes her distress for an actual illness. Dulac makes the scene an intimate confrontation between a seated daughter and an imposing father, while the story's exchanged ring preserves evidence that her experience was real within the fiction.
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Edmund Dulac. "The King of China Visits Badoura: Edmund Dulac" [source caption]. In Princess Badoura: A Tale from the Arabian Nights, Laurence Housman. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac, 1913, Hodder & Stoughton. Source scan leaf 37. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/badoura-king-china
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Title from the printed caption. Editorial description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
The narrated event is later than the plate's physical placement. The exact-page reader link opens the illustration, not the paragraph on printed p. 51.
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Edmund Dulac. The King of China Visits Badoura: Edmund Dulac. Princess Badoura: A Tale from the Arabian Nights. Scan leaf 37. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/badoura-king-china