An illustrator of books including Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Grimm's Fairy Tales, Edmund Dulac was born in Toulouse, France. His illustration career, spent in England, began towards the end of the 19th Century, coinciding with the last years of Golden Age of Illustration. As a result, he was one of its youngest representatives.

Innovative among his peer illustrators, he did much more creation of images with paint, usually watercolor, than with the traditional pen and ink. Using new technology for color separation, his unique approach was to "let the color hold the shape and define the object." Although he was much respected and so...