Monro S. Orr: Illustrations for The Arabian Nights' Entertainments

Monro Scott Orr (1874 - 1955) was a Scottish painter, illustrator and etcher. He was born in Irvine's High Street in October of 1874, studied at The Glasgow School of Art between 1894 and 1900. In the first half of the 20th Century, Orr produced a prodigious and varied range of book illustrations: from children's books, such as The Arabian Nights, Grimm's Fairy Tales and Treasure Islands; to the works of Robert Burns; and the works of Charlotte and Emily Bronte (Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, respectively).

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THE MAGIC CARPET

 THE PEOPLE FLED WITH THEIR DAUGHTERS

 THE SMOKE COLLECTED AND BECAME AN AFRITE

 

THERE ARRIVED A GREAT SAGE IN THE WISDOM OF THE PHILOSOPHERS

"BE RESTORED TO THY ORIGINAL FORM"

HE PLACED HER BEHIND HIM, AND SOARED UPWARD INTO THE SKY

WHEN WE BEHELD HIM WE WERE FILLED WITH DREAD AND TERROR

 THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA

 THE SHEIKH ABDELSAMAD

 "GIVE ME WHAT IS MY DUE, THAT I MAY GO"

 THE CALIPH SMILED

 ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES

 "AS SOON AS I THROW SOME STONES OUT OF MY CHAMBER WINDOW, COME OUT"

 IMMEDIATELY A GENIE OF ENORMOUS SIZE ROSE OUT OF THE EARTH

"WHO WILL CHANGE OLD LAMPS FOR NEW ONES?"