"Mu Lan"published on June 10,1938 in the American Weekly Sunday magazine painted by Edmund Dulac. In the fifth century, during the reign of the Wei Tartars, there rose in China a beautiful girl named Mu-lan to answer the battle call. The Kahn, as a ballad of the time tells it, had ordered a great levy of men, and her father was too old and her brothers too young to fight. So it was Mu-lan who bought a gallant horse, a saddle and cloth, a snaffle and reins, and a tall bow. Then she went forth on her errand of war and traveled four thousand miles until the enemy was driven out of China.
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: 9603px × 13374px
Photo credit: © Albert Seligman / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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