Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Final Marriage Procession: Edmund Dulac
Original caption: The Final Marriage Procession
Lantern-bearers, musicians and a richly decorated elephant fill Dulac's closing marriage procession. The tale has reunited Badoura and Camaralzaman, while Hayatelnefoos, who protected Badoura's secret in the Ebony Isles, becomes the prince's second wife. Housman's epilogue then returns to Scheherazade and Shahriar, where the successful telling helps end the threat hanging over the storyteller. The richly decorated howdah gives the closing company a monumental centre.
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Edmund Dulac. "The Final Marriage Procession: 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 149. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/badoura-procession
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Title from the printed caption. Editorial description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
The caption does not specify the riders. Narrative closure is supplied as context, not as a definitive identification of every figure.
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Edmund Dulac. The Final Marriage Procession: Edmund Dulac. Princess Badoura: A Tale from the Arabian Nights. Scan leaf 149. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/badoura-procession