Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Queen and Her Lover above the City
Two figures embrace beside an ornate seat while a great pattern of illuminated windows rises behind them. Dark blue buildings and small yellow lights make the city almost dissolve into a geometric night sky. The adjoining caption names the sleeping-draught that conceals the queen’s secret visits from her husband.
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Edmund Dulac. "The Queen and Her Lover above the City" [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 191. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0413-0184
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Edmund Dulac. The Queen and Her Lover above the City. Stories from the Arabian Nights. Scan leaf 191. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0413-0184