AMICA ID:
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SAAM.1978.108.19
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AMICA Library Year:
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2001
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Object Type:
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Drawings and Watercolors
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Creator Name:
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Vedder, Elihu
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Creator Nationality:
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North American; American
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Creator Role:
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Artist
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1836 USA-1923 Italy
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Elihu Vedder
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Title:
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(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) Omar's Horoscope
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Title Type:
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Title
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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1883-1884
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Creation Start Date:
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1883
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Creation End Date:
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1884
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Materials and Techniques:
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chalk, pencil, watercolor and ink on paper
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Dimensions:
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sheet: 18 5/8 x 14 1/4 in. (47.4 x 36.2 cm.)
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AMICA Contributor:
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Owner Location:
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Washington, DC, USA
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ID Number:
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1978.108.19
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Credit Line:
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Museum purchase and gift from Elizabeth W. Henderson in memory of her husband Francis TracyHenderson
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Inscriptions:
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lower right in pencil: V.lower left in pencil: 34/I tell you this--When, started fromthe Coal,/Over the flaming shoulders of the Foal/Of Heav'n Parwín and Mushtari they flung,/In my predestin'd Plot of Dust and Soul/35/The Vine had struck a fibre: which about/Itclings my Being--let the Dervish flout;/Of my Base metal may be filed a Key,/That shallunlock the Door he howls without./36/And this I know: whether the one True Light/Kindle toLove, or Wrath--consume me quite,/One Flash of it within the Tavern caught/Better than inthe Temple lost outright.mount upper left in colored pencil: C aldomount upper rightin pencil: Sopra Ho 5 caldo
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Copyright:
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Rights:
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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SAAM.1978.108.19.tif
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