Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Palace of Shining Marble
A cluster of pale golden domes and towers rises beyond a rugged foreground of dark rocks. Warm colour unifies the palace with the broad empty sky. The preceding caption describes the monarch arriving within sight of the palace of shining marble.
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Edmund Dulac. "The Palace of Shining Marble" [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 179. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0413-0172
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Edmund Dulac. The Palace of Shining Marble. Stories from the Arabian Nights. Scan leaf 179. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0413-0172