Cleopatra

Looking like a beautiful rendition of A Princess of Mars by J. Allen St. John, this is actually a beautiful rendition of Cleopatra by Harrison Fisher, from 1907 — five years before Princess first saw print. It could have been interesting if Fisher had been assigned to the Edgar Rice Burroughs' stories.

Harrison Fisher — Cleopatra — 1907

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When I left Chicago, after a summer at the Art Institute, I took two big portfolios with me on the train. One of hard-earned two bit stuff I had created, and one of all the great prints and posters I spent big bucks on at the great print/poster/book shop a few blocks off Michigan Ave. This J.C. Leyendecker was a favorite among favorites, that I actually spent money on to have professionally framed, at a time when I barely had enough money to eat on. That was my summer of exploring the essence of Rembrandt, and I remember reading that Rembrandt would spend his last few coins on a little vase as a prop for a painting rather than buy food. I identified with that attitude.

This was created as a SatEvePost cover in the 1920s.