Detail View: The AMICA Library: (Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Song in the Wilderness

AMICA ID: 
SAAM.1978.108.10
AMICA Library Year: 
2001
Object Type: 
Drawings and Watercolors
Creator Name: 
Vedder, Elihu
Creator Nationality: 
North American; American
Creator Role: 
Artist
Creator Dates/Places: 
1836 USA-1923 Italy
Creator Name-CRT: 
Elihu Vedder
Title: 
(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Song in the Wilderness
Title Type: 
Title
View: 
Full View
Creation Date: 
1883-1884
Creation Start Date: 
1883
Creation End Date: 
1884
Materials and Techniques: 
chalk, pencil, ink and watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 
sheet: 17 5/8 x 13 1/4 in. (44.8 x 33.6 cm.)
AMICA Contributor: 
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Owner Location: 
Washington, DC, USA
ID Number: 
1978.108.10
Credit Line: 
Museum purchase and gift from Elizabeth W. Henderson in memory of her husband Francis TracyHenderson
Inscriptions: 
lower right in chalk: V.center in pencil: 11/With me along the strip of Herbagestrown/That just divides the desert from the sown,/Where name of Slave and Sultán isforgot-/And Peace to Máhmúd on his golden Throne!/12/A Book of Verses Underneath the Bough,/A jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread-and Thou/Beside me singing in the Wilderness-/enow!/Oh,Wilderness were Paradisemount upper left in pencil and colored pencil: freddu (crossedout)mount upper right in pencil: Ho/mount upper right in colored pencil: Caldo
Copyright: 
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Rights: 
Related Image Identifier Link: 
SAAM.1978.108.10.tif