The Petition to the King shows townspeople presenting the king with a basket of bones, the dragon's latest victims, pleading for a solution. The king deliberates and will soon declare that lots must be drawn by the young women...
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley (1833-1898). English artist. and In Princess Sabra Drawing the Lot, the young women draw a lot from a bag to decide which one is to be sacrificed to the dragton. The king's daughter, Sabra, picks the...