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Home > Illustrations > The Alarm

The Alarm

By Thomas Dalziel | Created: 1863

The Alarm
Publication
  • Dalziel's Illustrated Arabian Nights' Entertainments
Publication Date
  • 1864
Medium
  • Wood engraving
Support
  • Paper
Illustration Size
  • 6.75 x 5 in.
Collection
  • The Tate

©Public Domain

"'The cadi's door was half-open, and when I went in I found the old lady waiting for me. As soon as she had shut the door, she conducted me to the apartment of the young lady with whom I was in love. But I had hardly commenced a conversation with her, when we heard a great noise in the street. The young lady ran to the widnow, and, looking through the blinds, perceived that the cadi her father was already returning from prayers. I looked out at the same time, and saw the barber seated ecactly opposite the house, on the same bench from whence I had beheld the lady for the first time."

excerpt from "The Story told by the tailor," Dalziel's Illustrated Arabian Nights' Entertainments; The Text Revised and Emendated throughout by H.W. Dulcken, PhD,  pg. 222

Genres
  • Books
  • Cover Art
  • Interior Illustration
Global Perspectives
  • Europe
  • Asia
Related Time Periods
  • Late 19th Century Late 19th Century

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