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Illustration to 'Beauty and the Beast'

Watercolour
1910 (made)
Artist/Maker
Dulac, Edmund (artist)

Water-colour of a blue fairy drawing back a canopy


Object details

Category
Watercolours
Object type
Watercolour
Titles
  • Illustration to 'Beauty and the Beast' (generic title)
  • She found herself face to face with a stately and beautiful lady (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Pen and ink and watercolour
Watercolour Drawing
Brief description
Illustration to 'Beauty and the Beast', watercolour by Edmund Dulac, 1910.
Physical description
Water-colour of a blue fairy drawing back a canopy
Dimensions
  • Height: 325mm
  • Width: 268mm
Marks and inscriptions
Edmund Dulac/ 10 (Signed and dated)
Credit line
Bequeathed by H. H. Harrod
Object history
"She found herself face to face with a stately and beautiful lady". Drawing for illustration to 'Beauty and the Beast', to face page 104 of 'The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales retold by Sir Arthur Quileer-Couch', published by Messrs. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1910.
Subject depicted
Fairies
Literary reference'Beauty and the Beast'
Bibliographic references
  • Engen, Rodney. The Age of Enchantment. Beardsley, Dulac and their Contemporaries 1890-1930, London : Scala Publishers Ltd., 2007 no.106
  • Anderson, Anne & Ovenden, Graham. The Truth About Faeries : from A Midsummer Night's Dream to Lord of the Rings Southampton : Southampton City Art Gallery, 2009 no. 106
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design, and Department of Paintings, Accessions: 1948, Volume II, Henry Herbert Harrod Bequest, London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1957
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.390-1948

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Record createdJune 25, 2007
Record URL
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