print;
title-page;
frontispiece
- Museum number
- 1868,0822.6874-6875
- Description
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Frontispiece and title-page vignette to "The Arabian Nights' Entertainment" (London, J. F. Dove for the Proprietors of the English Classics), Vol. 1, 1826: title-page on the right, figures in oriental dress, a couple sitting in the centre, watched by four other figures standing behind; frontispiece to the left, a woman calling two men hiding up in the tree, a giant sleeping to the right; after Thomas Stothard; scratched-letter.
Engraving and etching, printed on chine collé
- Production date
- 1826
- Dimensions
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Height: 149 millimetres
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Width: 174 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- In Westmacott Album number 2 in the Royal Academy of Arts collection of albums of prints by Thomas Stothard there are lettered prints of the frontispieces and title-pages as follows:
Vol. I: frontispiece, 'The Genie and the Lady shut up in a Glass Box'
Title-page vignette, 'The Barber's Second Brother.'
Vol. II: frontispiece, 'Noureddin and the fair Persian'
Title-page vignette, 'Prince Zeyn Alasnam'
Vol. III: frontispiece, 'Enchanted Horse.'
Title-page vignette, 'Cogia Hassan Alhabbal.'
1900,0824.414 is a study drawing by Stothard for the Vol. III title-page vignette
(With thanks to Cathy Elwall, email February 2017).
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Arabian Nights
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0822.6874-6875