"Perseus and Andromeda" published on ,1931 in the American Weekly magazine painted by Edmund Dulac. Queen Cassiopeia was so beautiful that her husband dared to compare her to the Sea Nymphs. This made them so angry that they sent an enormous sea serpent to ravage the coast of his land. The oracles trold the King that if he wanted to get rid of it, he must fasten his daughter, Andromeda, to a rock on the shore. So this was done, but just as the monster was coming up to eat her. Perseus, the ancient Greek hero, flew along on the winged sandals of the god Mercury. He killed the creature.
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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