An Arab sheikh smoking a hooka attended by his pipe-bearer. Coloured lithograph by Saint Germain, c. 1850, after E. Prisse.

Arabian doctors perform bleeding on poor Italian people; money jets out with the blood; signifying learned Arabs fleecing the poor. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after himself, 1699.

George Lloyd in Arab dress reclining and smoking a hookah. Coloured lithograph by Lemoine, ca. 1851.

Zoological Society of London: three giraffes surrounded by men in arabic costume. Coloured lithograph by G. Scharf.

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