Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Maidens on White Horses
White horses carry young women through thin trees beneath a bright moon. Dark patterned robes and pale faces repeat along the procession, with baskets held in their hands. The final caption describes maidens bearing precious stones in the celebrations at the story’s close.
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Edmund Dulac. "The Maidens on White Horses" [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 349. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0413-0339
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Edmund Dulac. The Maidens on White Horses. Stories from the Arabian Nights. Scan leaf 349. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0413-0339