Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Real Princess on the Towering Mattresses
A small sleepless woman lies at the top of an immense stack of patterned mattresses under a curtained canopy. The tall bed almost fills the timbered room. The picture shows the test with a single pea that identifies the sensitive heroine of the Princess and the Pea story.
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Edmund Dulac. "The Real Princess on the Towering Mattresses" [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 93. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0382-0084
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Edmund Dulac. The Real Princess on the Towering Mattresses. Edmund Dulac's Picture-Book for the French Red Cross. Scan leaf 93. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0382-0084