Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Ship Strikes the Rock
A small wooden vessel heels between huge dark rocks while white waves climb around the hull. A figure bends low beneath the taut pale sail. The original caption names the ship striking the rock, the disaster within the Princess of Deryabar’s account.
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Edmund Dulac. "The Ship Strikes the Rock" [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 325. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0413-0317
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Edmund Dulac. The Ship Strikes the Rock. Stories from the Arabian Nights. Scan leaf 325. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0413-0317