illustrations were: Although each print is named after and takes its inspiration from one of Cavafy's poems, most of the illustrations are based on drawings of Hockney's friends in London, mainly pairs of partially clothed men in Hockney's bedroom in Notting Hill. In an old book and One night are inspired by pictures in physique magazines. Only four – the two portraits of Cavafy, To remain (a dry cleaning shop) and The shop window of a tobacco store – are clearly located in the Middle East, while He enquired after the quality is based on a salesman spotted and drawn by Hockney in a bazaar. The prints measure by , from a plate measuring by . The plates were defaced after several limited editions of the etchings were printed, and were given to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. These prints were not Hockney's first experiments in printmaking. In 1961–1963, he produced a series of 16 etchings as an updated version of Hogarths A Rake's Progress, and he followed his 1966-67 Cavafy suite with Illustrations for Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm (1969). In 1968, the Arts Council made a short documentary film, Loves Presentation on the creation of the prints, directed by James Scott. The print was selected by British Museum director Neil MacGregor as object 97 in the A History of the World in 100 Objects, a series of radio programmes that started in 2010 as a collaboration between the BBC and the British Museum. References 20th-century etchings 1966 works David Hockney Collection of the Museum of Modern Art (New York City)