"Morgania Pours the Boiling Oil the Forty Thieves" on April 19,1925 in the American Weekly magazine as part of the "Characters from the Arabian Nights


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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