"Salome of Old Jerusalem" publish on March 10,1929 in the American Weekly Sunday magazine painted by Edmund Dulac. Salome was the daughter of Herodias, who was the wife of Herod, the Tetrarch of Galilee in the time of the Saviour. Her mother hated John the Baptist, who had preached bitterly against her. Salome was a wonderful dancer, and on the birthday of Herod, her stepfather, she danced for him, and so beguiled him that he promised to give her whatever that she would ask. Instructed by her mother she asked for John the Baptist head, and Herod had it cut off and brought to her on a platter
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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