print;
title-page;
frontispiece
- Museum number
- 1867,0713.654-655
- Title
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Object: Relaun the Son of Canfu initiated in the mysteries of the evil Genii
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Object: The Tales of the Genii, Translated from the Persian by Sir Charles Morell
- Description
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Title-page and frontispiece, printed from a single plate.
frontispiece to left: a young man in oriental dress sitting on a mountainside, men and princes bowing before him, diminutive in proportion to him, a winged figure dragging a beast out of a cave below him, fairies flying around his head, a female figure in clouds to right and a demon to right.
titlepage to right: with a vignette showing a young woman in oriental dress, kneeling beside a pool, looking curiously to right at a lion which rubs against her affectionately.
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1814
- Dimensions
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Height: 134 millimetres
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Width: 148 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Tales of the Genii
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1867,0713.654-655
