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A celebrated artist of the golden age of British book illustration, the French-born Edmund Dulac was inspired by Persian miniatures and manuscript illustration. This watercolor was one of a series of four scenes painted to accompany a poem by André Dumas, <em>Figures of the Orient</em>. Dulac depicted legendary enchantresses of the East: Circe, Salome, Scheherazade, and here, the Queen of Sheba. Aloft a camel, the dark-haired beauty languorously surveys the arid landscape as she and her entourage approach the Holy Land. Vibrant silks spill out of the queen’s gold and lapis howdah, a veritable mosaic of texture and pattern.
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Document identity
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119940
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The Queen of Sheba
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drawing
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Source metadata
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119940
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drawing
title
The Queen of Sheba
description
A celebrated artist of the golden age of British book illustration, the French-born Edmund Dulac was inspired by Persian miniatures and manuscript illustration. This watercolor was one of a series of four scenes painted to accompany a poem by André Dumas, <em>Figures of the Orient</em>. Dulac depicted legendary enchantresses of the East: Circe, Salome, Scheherazade, and here, the Queen of Sheba. Aloft a camel, the dark-haired beauty languorously surveys the arid landscape as she and her entourage approach the Holy Land. Vibrant silks spill out of the queen’s gold and lapis howdah, a veritable mosaic of texture and pattern.
date
1911
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q80015256
creators
1438
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 31.6 x 25.4 cm (12 7/16 x 10 in.)
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England, 20th century
accession
1940.738
Source extras
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Pen and brown ink, watercolor, and gouache, with graphite and color wax crayon, on artist’s drawing board
tombstone
L’Illustration: The Queen of Sheba, 1911. Edmund Dulac (British, 1882–1953). Pen and brown ink, watercolor, and gouache, with graphite and color wax crayon, on artist’s drawing board; sheet: 31.6 x 25.4 cm (12 7/16 x 10 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of James Parmelee, 1940.738
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L’Illustration
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artist's drawing board
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DR - British
inscriptions
inscription
signed and dated, in black ink, at lower left: Edmund / Dulac 11
didYouKnow
Edmund Dulac was such a devoted Anglophile that as a student his contemporaries referred to him as "l'Anglais" (English).
citations
citation
<em>L'Illustration</em> (1911).
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Reproduced
citation
White, Colin. <em>Edmund Dulac</em>. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976.
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Mentioned: pp. 49-50
citation
Hughey, Ann Conolly. <em>Edmund Dulac: His Book Illustrations, A Bibliography</em>. Potomac, MD: Buttonwood Press, 1995.
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Mentioned: no. 28
citation
Lemonedes, Heather. <em>British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013.
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Mentioned: pp. 138-41, 145, no. 48a; Reproduced: p. 139
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Bequest of James Parmelee
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2026-05-29 06:11:52.674000
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119940
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Drawings
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DR - British
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Pen and brown ink, watercolor, and gouache, with graphite and color wax crayon, on artist’s drawing board
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male
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1
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0
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photo
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