The Saracen Heads suite of twenty-five etchings on Vélin Arches Blanc paper was published in 1988 by Flowers Gallery. It was inspired by the characters Peter Howson observed in a pub near to his studio called The Saracen’s Head, a world as he described it “full of gangsters, boxers and prostitutes.” Many of the etchings from this series were acquired by institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Tate Gallery, London.