AMICA ID:
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SAAM.1978.108.42
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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) The Magdalen
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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 and ink on paper
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Dimensions:
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sheet: 19 3/8 x 14 3/4 in. (49.3 x 37.5 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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1978.108.42
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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 chalk and ink: V.upper right in pencil: 79/What! from his helplessCreature be repaid/Pure Gold for what he lent us dross-allay'd--/Sue for a Debt we neverdid contract,/And cannot answer--Oh the sorry trade!/80/Oh Thou, who didst with pitfalland with gin/Beset the Road I was to wander in,/Thou wilt not with Predestin'd Evilround/Enmesh, and then impute my Fall to Sin!mount upper left in pencil: Froddo No 5
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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.1978.108.42.tif
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