Art, Symbol & Imagination
Layla’s Palace in the Blue Night
Pale towers and a many-tiered palace emerge between dark foliage beneath a blue night sky. Dense shrubs and fine architectural lines make the building appear remote and enclosed. The plate accompanies the account of Layla’s high chamber in the Persian love story Layla and Majnun.
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Edmund Dulac. "Layla’s Palace in the Blue Night" [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 37. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0382-0028
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Edmund Dulac. Layla’s Palace in the Blue Night. Edmund Dulac's Picture-Book for the French Red Cross. Scan leaf 37. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0382-0028