Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Bird Feng before the Princess
A brilliant long-tailed bird curves above a seated princess in a dark ornamental enclosure. Pink, green and violet feathers echo the flowing folds of her clothing. The caption describes the heavenly bird alighting before her and dropping a portrait at her feet.
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Edmund Dulac. "The Bird Feng before the Princess" [editorial title]. In Edmund Dulac's Picture-Book for the French Red Cross, Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Undated wartime Hodder & Stoughton edition published for The Daily Telegraph; London, New York and Toronto., undated edition, Hodder and Stoughton; published for The Daily Telegraph. Source scan leaf 18. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0382-0009
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Edmund Dulac. The Bird Feng before the Princess. Edmund Dulac's Picture-Book for the French Red Cross. Scan leaf 18. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0382-0009