"Saint Martha and the Dragon" published in the American Weekly magazine April 11, 1937 painted by Edmund Dulac one of the Beauty and the Beast series. The power of virtuous women to lead beasts to destruction is nowhere made clearer than in the medieval legend of Martha, sister of Lazarus, who subdued the dragon of Tarascon. Martha, set adrift in a boat by enemies, had landed safely in Marseillais, where she introduced the gospel. A monster, half-beast and half-fish, from its hiding place in the Rhone River, was at that time upsetting ships to eat those on board.
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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Photo credit: © Albert Seligman / Alamy / Afripics
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