Sinbad the Sailor entertains Sinbad the Landman

Edmund Dulac, 1882-1953

1915

Photographic reproduction of watercolor.

Source: Frontispiece inSinbad the Sailor and other Stories from the Arabian Nights

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Formatting and text by George P. Landow

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Dulac here borrows from both Persian and Persian-influenced Northern Indian or Rajput court portraits and paintings that include such subjects. These elements include (a) the gold-leave background, (b) asymmetrical border, and the (c) general composition with courtiers places diagonally before the ruler. Compare Dulac's illustration with the following works:

Related Material

• Late-eighteenth-century or early-nineteenth-century Rajput court portrait
• Late-eighteenth-century or early-nineteenth-century Persian painting
• Gold-leaf background in Persian painting
• Courtiers

Bibliography

Housman, Laurence. Sinbad the Sailor and other Stories from the Arabian Nights. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1915. Internet Archive version of a copy in the New York Public Library. Web. 2 January 2013

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