About the Artwork
Aladdin and the African Magician
1905
Maxfield Parrish
1870-1966
American
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Oil glaze on paper
Unframed: 18 × 16 inches (45.7 × 40.6 cm) Framed: 28 3/4 × 24 3/4 × 1 5/8 inches (73 × 62.9 × 4.1 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence P. Fisher
68.330
Restricted
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Signed and dated, verso: Maxfield Parrish | 1905
Inscribed, verso: Arabian Nights Entertainment/The History of Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp.| A thick and dense smoke immediately arose, which seemed to unfold itself at some mysterious(?)words pronounced by the magician, and which Aladdin did not in the least comprehend. A moment after-wards, the ground shook slightly and opening near the spot where they stood discovered a square stone, with a ring in the center by which it could be lifted up." | Maxfield Parrish | "The Oaks"/Windsor: Vermont" | September of 1905. Inscribed, on verso: 0S2/XII/891 [in a box] 4690 | H.Y. | Property of Mrs. R. J. Collier | #451
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Mrs. R. J. Collier.1968-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Maxfield Parrish, Aladdin and the African Magician, 1905, oil glaze on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence P. Fisher, 68.330.
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