"Cleopatra" published May 13,1934 in the American Weekly magazine painted by Edmund Dulac. Cleopatra was a wise and ambitious queen, by her wisdom and her wiles she managed to cajole Julius Caesar into keeping the rapacious hands of Rome off Egypt. After he was assassinated she picked Marc Antony for her protector. In BC 31 Antony and Octavian, whom Caesar had adopted, were fighting each other for the mastery of the Roman Empire. Antony’s forces were winning on land, but the sea battle, off Actium, was in doubt. Cleopatra was on one vessel on Antony on was brought to
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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