Edmund Dulac was actually born
French, but moved to England in his early 20s, and became a British citizen in
1912.
On arrival in London, Dulac was
commissioned to illustrate Dent’s edition Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. He
worked for the Pall Mall Gazette, and then was commissioned by Hodder and
Stoughton to illustrate a number of books, including the works of Hans
Christian Anderson, from which I have tried to copy an illustration he made of
the Little Mermaid.
When I look at Dulac’s illustrations
for this and other books I am struck that he works in a similar style to his
contemporary Arthur Rackham. After the first World War there was much less
demand for illustrated picture books of the style he had been producing before,
and so he moved into other areas, such as newspaper caricatures, portraiture
and theatre design. Like later illustrators Ralph Steadman and Gerald Scarfe,
Dulac also illustrated postage stamps for the Royal Mail.
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