Art, Symbol & Imagination
Morgiana’s Dagger Dance
A richly dressed dancer turns with one arm extended and a dagger lifted in the other hand. Flowing cloth and curved limbs draw a wide arc before the watching men. The caption identifies the final movement of Morgiana’s dance, in which the hidden danger to Ali Baba is exposed.
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Edmund Dulac. "Morgiana’s Dagger Dance" [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 249. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0413-0242
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Edmund Dulac. Morgiana’s Dagger Dance. Stories from the Arabian Nights. Scan leaf 249. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0413-0242