Art, Symbol & Imagination
Morgiana among the Oil Jars
A woman bends with a pale vessel among enormous brown jars beneath a tree. The repeated rounded containers fill the dark garden around her. The printed caption identifies the fatal oil poured into the jars as Morgiana uncovers the thieves’ plan against Ali Baba.
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Edmund Dulac. "Morgiana among the Oil Jars" [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 241. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0413-0234
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Edmund Dulac. Morgiana among the Oil Jars. Stories from the Arabian Nights. Scan leaf 241. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0413-0234