James Ridley

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John Martin's painting Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion illustrates an incident from James Ridley's Tales of the Genii.
John Martin's painting Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion illustrates an incident from James Ridley's Tales of the Genii.

James Ridley (1736–1765) was an author who was educated at University College, Oxford. He is mainly remembered for his Oriental pastiche Tales of the Genii, a set of stories based on those of the Arabian Nights.

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