The first interview of the Prince of Persia and Schemselnihar at the House of Ehn Thair Arabn. nights enterts. / [graphic]

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Title: The first interview of the Prince of Persia and Schemselnihar at the House of Ehn Thair Arabn. nights enterts. / [graphic]
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, publisher.
Published / Created: [10 April 1795]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub'd April 10, 1795, by W. Dickinson, No. 53 next York House, Piccadilly
Abstract: "A man leaning on a table at left at which a lady is seated, turning to look at the prince at right, his sword hanging on a chain around his waist, three girls watch the meeting through an arch behind; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image, enclosed within parentheses.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted on page 92 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Provenance: Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 50, to H.G. Bohn, £7.7.0 [London, 733]; from an undergraduate at King's College, through Scribner's, May 1952, to W.S. Lewis, $225.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 28.8 x 34.1 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 92. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Collection/Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
Collection Date: [Strawberry Hill], [between 1765 and 1792]

Genre: Illustrations
Book illustrations
Stipple engravings England London 1795
Engravings England London 1795
Material: stipple engraving and engraving ; and wove paper bistre ink.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Princes
Daggers & swords
Subjects: Arabian nights > Illustrations
Princes
Daggers & swords
England > London > 1795
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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