Art, Symbol & Imagination
To Helen: The Lamp in the Window-Niche
A pale-robed woman stands beneath a pointed arch with one arm raised towards a small lamp. Stars fill the dark opening above her head while slender columns frame the niche. The design follows the poem’s final vision of Helen standing like a statue with an agate lamp in her hand.
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Edmund Dulac. "To Helen: The Lamp in the Window-Niche" [editorial title]. In The Bells and Other Poems, Edgar Allan Poe; illustrated by Edmund Dulac. New York and London: Hodder and Stoughton; undated title; illustrations by Edmund Dulac., undated edition, Hodder and Stoughton. Source scan leaf 139. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0417-0129
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Edmund Dulac. To Helen: The Lamp in the Window-Niche. The Bells and Other Poems. Scan leaf 139. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0417-0129