"Zenobia"published on June 26, 1938 in the American Weekly Sunday magazine painted by Edmund Dulac. Septima Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, was a ravishing Arabian widow, who by hard fighting made herself so powerful in the third century before Christ that the jealous Romans sent an army to crush her. Her merchants made fortunes transporting riches and war supplies over the desert for others, and through their wealth Zenobia became even at the head of 70,000 warriors and spearmen, she took Alexandria, capital of Egypt, and was acknowledged Queen Empress of the East.
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.
Size: 9673px × 13397px
Photo credit: © Albert Seligman / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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