drawing
- Museum number
- 1967,1014.85
- Description
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Great was the astonishment of the Vizier and the Sultan's escort, illustration to 'Stories from the Arabian Nights, Retold by Laurence Housman', Hodder & Stoughton, 1907; in foreground tent, with three figures outside, and one inside looking out through opening, beyond woman looking from behind curtain in building at left, and two figures near archway at r. 1907
Pen and brown ink, and watercolour, touched with bodycolour
- Production date
- 1907
- Dimensions
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Height: 259 millimetres
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Width: 357 millimetres (sight measurement)
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1982/3 Nov-Jan, Sheffield, Mappin Art Gallery, 'Dulac', no.7
1983 Jan-Feb, Bristol Art Gallery, 'Dulac', no.7
2007/8 Nov-Feb, London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 'The Age of Enchantment:..'
2019-2020 10 Oct - 26 Jan, London, BM, G35: "Inspired by the East: how the Islamic World influenced Western Art”
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Stories from the Arabian Nights
- Acquisition date
- 1967
- Acquisition notes
- This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1967,1014.85
