Lenander - Illustration of The Story of the Fisherman from the Arabian Nights

Lenander - Illustration of The Story of the Fisherman from the Arabian Nights

A woodcut engraving illustrated by William Harvey showing the scene "The Story of the Fisherman" for the 1912 book titled "The Thousand and One Nights: Commonly called, in England The Arabian Nights' Entertainments" by Edward William Lane. The engraving depicts the moment the fisherman lets the Jinn out of the container that was fished out of the sea. The Jinn rises from a column of smoke towards the sky while the fisherman watches.

William Harvey

Lane, Edward, trans. The Thousand and One Nights; commonly called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments. Illus. William Harvey. 3 vols. London: Chatto & Windus, 1912.

1838-40

Public Domain

photographic reproduction of a Woodcut engraving

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Likely England based on author birth and coverage of related woodcut engravings