Dulac's Arabian Nights or Disney's Agrabah?

Dulac's Arabian Nights or Disney's Agrabah?

Immediately above (and below) is Edmund Dulac's Arabian Nights (1907). Up top is Disney's Agrabah in Aladdin - clearly an homage. Dulac was a French book illustrator whose heyday was in England in the years before World War I. He produced his whimsical flights of fancy for many books, including Edgar Allan Poe's poems and fairytales such as Beauty & the Beast.

Such images are Orientalist but interesting. Below is a revision from 1911.