Art, Symbol & Imagination
Laughing Sapphire Holds the Shell
A red-clothed fairy rides upon foaming waves beside a broad nautilus shell. Dulac illustrates the sea-fairy holding a little shell within a beam of coloured light.
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Edmund Dulac. "Laughing Sapphire Holds the Shell" [editorial title]. In Fairies I Have Met, Mrs. Rodolph Stawell; Edmund Dulac. Reading edition, undated edition. Source scan leaf 19. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0674-0019
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Edmund Dulac. Laughing Sapphire Holds the Shell. Fairies I Have Met. Scan leaf 19. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0674-0019