"Prince Ahmed Finds the Sorceress" published January 21, 1951 in the American Weekly Sunday magazine painted by Edmund Dulac for the series "Tales from the Arabian Nights".After the beautiful fairy Perie Banou had lured Prince Ahmed to her castle inside a mountain, it required very little time for him to decide to marry her. But she noticed long before that her husband was anxious to visit his father, a sultan of India. She gave her permission and provided an escort, warning him not to tell his father whom he had married or where he was living. The sultan’s counsellors, suspicious of Achmed’..
In 1923, “Edmund Dulac, the Distinguished English Artist,” as he was billed on the covers, was contracted by the Hearst organization to paint watercolors for The American Weekly Sunday magazine. The contract lasted 30 years and Dulac painted 107 watercolors for thirteen different series until his last Arabian Nights in 1951.
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