Sheich Ibrahim and His Visitors (from "Illustrated Arabian Nights' Entertainments")
Engraver Dalziel Brothers British
After Thomas Dalziel British
Not on view
This woodengraving was made to illustrate "The History of Noureddin and the Beautiful Persian," one of the stories published in Dalziel's Illustrated Arabian Nights Entertainments in 1865. This version on newprint comes from a periodical where he stories were issued first in serial form. This print came to the Museum inserted in an album of caricatures clipped from contemporary periodicals, assembled around 1873 by the artist and etcher Arthur Heseltine. Born in England, Heseltine lived for a time in Bourron-Marlotte, near the forest of Fountainebleau in France, and later in Glasgow. The album later belonged to William Lieberman, a curator at the Museum of Modern Art, and chairman of the Department of 20th Century Art at the Metropolitan Museum.
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