Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Fisherman before the Mighty Genie
A great muscular figure rises above a tiny man crouched beside the water. Its size almost fills the rocky opening and dwarfs the shoreline below. The plate illustrates the genie released from the fisherman’s vessel at the beginning of the collection.
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Edmund Dulac. "The Fisherman before the Mighty Genie" [editorial title]. In Stories from the Arabian Nights, Retold by Laurence Housman; drawings by Edmund Dulac. London: Hodder and Stoughton; title undated, verso states “Printed in 1907”; retold by Laurence Housman, drawings by Edmund Dulac., 1907, Hodder and Stoughton. Source scan leaf 159. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0413-0152
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Edmund Dulac. The Fisherman before the Mighty Genie. Stories from the Arabian Nights. Scan leaf 159. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0413-0152