Detail View: The AMICA Library: (Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Loquacious Vessels
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AMICA ID:
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SAAM.1978.108.47
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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 Loquacious Vessels
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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, ink and watercolor on paper
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Dimensions:
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sheet: 13 3/8 x 10 5/8 in. (34.1 x 26.9 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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1978.108.47
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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.upper left in pencil: 87/Whereat someone of the loquaciousLot--/I think a Súfi pipkin--waxing hot--/"All this of Pot and Potter--Tell me then,/"Whomakes-Who sells-Who buys-Who is/the Pot?"/88/"Why," said another, "Some there are whotell/"Of one who threatens he will toss to Hell/"The luckless Pots he marr'd in making-Pish!/"He's a Good Fellow, and 'twill all be well."/89/"Well," murmur'd one "Let whoso(sic) make or buy,/"My Clay with long Oblivion is gone dry:/"But fill me with the oldfamiliar Juice,/"Methinks I might recover by and by."
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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.1978.108.47.tif
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