"The Queen of Sheba" published on ,1939 in the American Weekly Sunday magazine painted bt Edmund Dulac for the "Famous Vamps of History" series. The Bible says that when she “heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove him with hard questions.” They had a mutually agreeable meeting, according to the scriptural narrative, made each other rich presents, and then the Queen went back to her own land, supposed to be Abyssina. She was very beautiful and very wise, and Solomon, says the Bible, “gave unto the Queen of Sheba all her desire,whatsoever she asked,” which is the aim of all “vamps
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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