Detail View: The AMICA Library: (Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Sorry Scheme

AMICA ID: 
SAAM.1978.108.52
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 Sorry Scheme
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: 18 3/8 x 14 1/8 in. (46.8 x 35.9 cm.)
AMICA Contributor: 
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Owner Location: 
Washington, DC, USA
ID Number: 
1978.108.52
Credit Line: 
Museum purchase and gift from Elizabeth W. Henderson in memory of her husband Francis TracyHenderson
Inscriptions: 
lower right in chalk: V.center right in pencil: 97/Would but the Desert of theFountain yield/One glimpse--if dimly, yet indeed, reveal'd,/To which the faintingTraveller might spring,/As springs the trampled herbage of the field!/98/Would but somewingéd Angel ere too late/Arrest the yet unfolded Roll of Fate,/And make the sternRecorder otherwise/Enregister, or quite obliterate!/99/Ah Love! could you and I with Himconspire/To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,/Would not we shatter it to bits--andthen/Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!mount upper right in pencil: Caldomountupper center in pencil: C
Copyright: 
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Rights: 
Related Image Identifier Link: 
SAAM.1978.108.52.tif