The Calender and the Angry Genie
All Resolutions
The calender, son of a king, was snatched up by an angry genie and thrown into a strange island.
(Facing p. 64.)
Description:
A scary genie with long hair and teeth, bulging glassy eyes, wings, and a lower body shaped like a fish tail seems to be leaping out of the water to pursue a man trying to run away on a small rocky islet. This picture refers to the story of the second calender, which is part of One Thousand and One Nights.
Each plate in this volume was printed twice: once within the relevant passage, framed by an ornamental border, and once unbordered in a separate portfolio bound at the rear, a practice common to luxury editions of the period.
The caption reads in the original French: Le calender, fils de roi, saisi par un génie furieux, fut jeté dans une île inconnue.
