Art, Symbol & Imagination
A woman reaches towards the star
A woman in a white dress and rose-coloured drapery stretches her hands towards a star in a deep blue sky. Patterned flowers cover the pale ground beneath her. Edmund Dulac’s colour illustration accompanies Marie, Queen of Roumania’s The Stealers of Light, first published in 1916.
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Edmund Dulac. "A woman reaches towards the star" [editorial title]. In The Stealers of Light, Marie, Queen of Roumania; illustrated by Edmund Dulac. 2026 digital reading edition of the 1916 illustrated text; source: A Celebration of Women Writers, University of Pennsylvania, 2026, Lumitheca. Source scan leaf 3. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/stealers-star
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Edmund Dulac. A woman reaches towards the star. The Stealers of Light. Scan leaf 3. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/stealers-star