Arabian Collection

Map of the Ancient Persian Empire, encompassing Greece to the north west, Arabia to the south east, Egypt and Libya to the south west and deep in the Caucasus in the north east. Date: 1798

Map of Ancient Egypt. Date: 1814

George Stubbs (1724-1806). Whistlejacket (c. 1762)
George Stubbs (1724-1806). English painter. Whistlejacket (c. 1762). Oil on Canvas. National Gallery. London. England. UK

Two Arab Falconers from Saudi Arabia
A very beautiful postcard, depicting two Arab Falconers from Saudi Arabia. One has three of his birds (Peregrine Falcons?) sitting on his arm, shoulder and head! Date: circa 1910s

Emir Faisal at Wejh (now in Saudi Arabia)
Emir Faisal (1883-1933) at Wejh (now in Saudi Arabia) during the First World War. He later became Faisal I of Iraq

Scheherazade by T Mackenzie
This drawing depicts a scene in the legend of The One Thousand and One Arabian nights. Queen Scheherazade is telling a story to King Shahrayar

Arabian-Byzantine coin. Coin. FRANCE. Paris. National Library

ECLIPSE
Great-grandson of Darley Arabian, raced 1769-1770 in 18 races, all of which he won. His skeleton is preserved in the Royal Veterinary College

Exotic dancer by Rene Bull
A stylised illustration by Rene Bull (1872-1942) showing a scantily clad exotic dancer in a beautiful garden hanging with fruits

Stages of the pearl fishery industry in the Persian Gulf. Date: 1902

Pearl fishing in the Persian Gulf
The Pearl Fishery in the Persian Gulf. Sidi-Arab diver with pince-nez. The Mosquito Fleet at anchor. The divers at work below. Apparatus used by the divers. Date: 1881

Lady Anne Blunt, traveller in Arabia and the Middle East
Lady Anne Blunt, 15th Baroness Wentworth (1837-1917), English traveller in Arabia and the Middle East, buyer and breeder of Arab horses. circa 1860s

Scenery for Aladdin, Pollocks Toy Theatre, with two rounded arches opening onto a seascape. Date: late 19th century

Medina, Saudi Arabia - Hajj Pilgrimage - Sacred Carpet
Medina, Saudi Arabia - Hajj Pilgrimage - The Guard of Honour and Custodians of the Sacred Carpet Date: circa 1905

Saudi Arabia - A Farm in Wadi Najran. Date: 1976

Tours to Mesopotamia (Iraq) with Thomas Cook & Son
Cover illustration for Tours to Mesopotamia (Iraq) under the management of Thomas Cook & Son Ltd, showing a group of three men brewing mint tea in a Middle Eastern street scene

Tunisia - Arab Bazaar
Tunisia - an Arab dealer sitting in his shop, surrounded by his wares (pretty much everything you can imagine) including drapes, rugs, pots, a stuffed baby crocodile, swords, guns

Magic Carpet Airborne
The Magic Carpet, favoured transport system of the Arabian Nights

Cessna 550 Citation II HZ-a1 (msn 550-0116), of the Arabian International Services Company, at London Heathrow Airport. Date: circa 1981

Mecca, Saudi Arabia - Court of the Ka aba: overall view. Date: circa 1905

Fisherman and Djinn
The fisherman inadvertently rubs the lamp he has found, and is amazed by the apparition of the djinn (genie)

Thistle species
Showy Mexican scarlet thistle, Erythrolaena conspicua, Arabian cotton thistle, Onopordum arabicum, and blue-flowered carthamus, Carthamus caeruleus

ARABIAN NIGHTS / ALADDIN
Aladdin whispers into the ear of his attentive red genie. Date: 1922-3

GEBER Either the Arabian alchemist of the 8th to 9th centuries or the 14th century Spanish alchemist who wrote under the same name

Aladdin and his Lamp
Aladdin holds the lamp

M Orr / Aladdin Buys Lamp
New lamps for old

M. Orr / Ali Baba
Ali Baba counted forty of them from his vantage point up a tree

Al-Shumaisi Hospital (now the King Saud Medical Centre), Riyadh - Saudi Arabia. Date: circa 1950s

Farming in Buraydah, the capital of Al-Qassim Region in north-central Saudi Arabia in the heart of the Arabian Peninsula. Date: circa 1950s

Bedouin woman with face tattoos outside her tent, Syria
Portrait of middle aged Bedouin woman with face tattoos outside her tent in the Syrian desert in Syria. She looks directly at the camera Date: 2005

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Story of the Princess of Deryabar

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Story of the Princess of Deryabar. She and her companion arrived at the city of Harran. Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Story of the Princess of Deryabar. She found to her grief the place where Codadad had lain left vacant. Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Story of the Princess of Deryabar. The Princess of Deryabar. Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Story of the Princess of Deryabar. And presently, feeling myself lifted by men's hands Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Story of the Princess of Deryabar. The ship struck a rock. Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Story of the Princess of Deryabar. Presently in the distance he perceived a light Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Story of the Princess of Deryabar. A city among the Isles named Deryabar Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Story of the Wicked Half-Brothers. The lady advanced to meet him Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Story of the Wicked Half-Brothers. Pirouze, the fairest and most honourably born Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Story of the Wicked Half-Brothers. There appeared before him an old man of venerable appearance. Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Story of the Magic Horse. And ever with the tears falling down from her eyes she sighed and sang. Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Story of the Magic Horse. For many months he travelled without clue. Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Story of the Magic Horse. It was in vain that all the wisest physicians in the country were summoned into consultation. Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Story of the Magic Horse. In the garden of the summer palace all was silence and solitude. Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Story of the Magic Horse. Sat by the lake and solaced themselves sweetly with love Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Story of the Magic Horse. All this time the Princess had been watching the combat from the roof of the palace. Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Story of the Magic Horse. She cried, "O miserable man, what sorry watch is this that thou hast kept" Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Story of the Magic Horse. Till the tale of her mirror contented her Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Story of the Magic Horse. She gave orders for a rich banquet to be prepared. Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Story of the Magic Horse. As he descended, the daylight in which hitherto he had been travelling faded from view. Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Story of the Magic Horse. At so arrogant a claim all the courtiers burst into loud laughter. Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Then for the last figure of all she drew out the dagger. Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. When Morgiana, who had remained all this time on the watch... Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. "Sir, " said he, "I have brought my oil a great distance to sell tomorrow." Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Having transformed himself by disguise Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. This way and that she led him blindfold. Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Mustapha doubted much of his ability to refrain from question. Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Greater still was the exultation of a greedy nature like that of Cassim's. Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. As soon as he came in she began to jeer at him. Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Ali Baba departed for the town a well satisfied man. Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Their chief in a low but distinct voice uttered the two words "Open Sesame!" Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Story of the King of the Ebony Isles. Great was the astonishment of the Vizier and the Sultan's escort. Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Story of the King of the Ebony Isles. Thus by her wicked machinations the city became a lake. Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Story of the King of the Ebony Isles. She went on to vent her malice upon the city and islands. Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Story of the King of the Ebony Isles. Began to heap upon me terms of the most violent and shameful abuse Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac.The Story of the King of the Ebony Isles. The cup of wine which she gives him each night contains a sleeping draught

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Story of the King of the Ebony Isles. Supposing me asleep, they began to talk Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Story of the King of the Ebony Isles. The Queen of the Ebony Isles. Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Fisherman and the Genie. He arrived within sight of a palace of shining marble. Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Fisherman and the Genie. Recalling the fisherman by a swift messenger. Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Fisherman and the Genie. Thereupon the damsel upset the pan into the fire Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Fisherman and the Genie. No sooner had the monarch seen them, so strange of form and so brilliant and diverse in hue Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Fisherman and the Genie. When having brought into submission all the rest of my race. Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights, illustration by Edmund Dulac. The Fisherman and the Genie. And there in its midst stood a mighty Genie. Date: 1907

The Arabian Nights. Illustration by Edmund Dulac.Scheherazade, the heroine of the Thousand and One Nights. Date: 1907

Scheherazade of the Arabian Nights by Edmund Dulac Date: 1912

Princess Badoura sees Prince Camaralzaman
Princess Badoura, in disguise, sees Prince Camaralzaman

Prince Ahmed finds the sorceress, from the Arabian Nights, by Edmund Dulac

The genii and Princess Badoura
The genii bringing Princess Badoura to Prince Camaralzaman, from the Arabian Nights by Edmund Dulac

Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Pari-Banou, from the Arabian Nights, illustrated by Edmund Dulac (1882-1953)

4 of 4 illustration by Edmund Dulac of characters from the Arabian Nights'. The African magician regains Aladdin's lamp, handed over by Princess Badroulboudour. Date: 1926

Edmund Dulac - Characters of the Arabian Nights
2 of 4 illustrations by Edmund Dulac of characters from the Arabian Nights'. Prince Firouz Schah and the Enchanted Horse. Date: 1926

1 of 4 illustrations by Edmund Dulac in The Sketch depicting characters from the Arabian Nights'. Scheherazade, the narrator of the thousand and one tales. Date: 1926

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