print;
newspaper/periodical;
album
- Museum number
- 1881,0312.326-331
- Description
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Six illustrations to 'Persian Tales', for the 'Novelist's Magazine' (London, 23 vols., 1780-1788, Harrison & Co), after Stothard; with an ornate frame containing a head surrounded by rays at the top, and a scrolled cartouche for the relevant book title at the bottom; pasted on the album.
Plate I; Banon's wife and slave hiding the doctor in a chest; two women in oriental dress ushering a man into a trunk, one looking furtively over her shoulder to left; by Walker. 1783
Plate II; The King of Persia discovering the Princess of the Nairmans; a man wearing a turban, leading a horse, coming across a young woman sitting with her head in her hands in front of a tree on the right; by Heath; without plate number and publication line. 1783
Plate III; Sutlumimi entertaining the Princess of Casmiri with the Tale of Aboulcassim of Basra; oriental interior where a man wearing a plumed turban is sitting on the right against cushions, talking to a woman beside him; by Walker. 1783
Plate IV?; The female slave stabs herself from disappointed love; a young woman standing in the left foreground stabbing herself while looking up at an oriental princess and her attendants on a dais; by Angus; without plate number and publication line.
Plate V; Duhy meeting the sisters Falima and Cadigi carrying linen to Masulipatan; an elderly bearded man in oriental dress standing on the right in a landscape, addressing two young women who pass by carrying linen; by Heath. 1783
Plate VI; Prince Seyfil Mulsek admiring the daughter of King Serendib while she sleeps on a couch; a young man in oriental dress and turban standing on the right admiring a woman asleep on a canopied couch; by Birrell. 1783
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1783
- Dimensions
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Height: 150 millimetres (each image, approx.)
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Width: 100 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1881,0312.153 for comment.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: Novelist's Magazine
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Associated Title: Persian Tales
- Acquisition date
- 1881
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1881,0312.326-331