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Elihu Vedder, (Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Loquacious Vessels, 1883-1884, chalk, pencil, ink and watercolor on paper, sheet: 13 3⁄8 x 10 5⁄8 in. (34.1 x 26.9 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase and gift from Elizabeth W. Henderson in memory of her husband Francis Tracy Henderson, 1978.108.47
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Artwork Details
- Title
- (Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Loquacious Vessels
- Artist
- Date
- 1883-1884
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sheet: 13 3⁄8 x 10 5⁄8 in. (34.1 x 26.9 cm)
- Markings
- lower right in pencil: V. upper left in pencil: 87/Whereat someone of the loquacious Lot--/I think a Súfi pipkin--waxing hot--/"All this of Pot and Potter--Tell me then,/"Who makes-Who sells-Who buys-Who is/the Pot?"/88/"Why," said another, "Some there are who tell/"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 old familiar Juice,/"Methinks I might recover by and by."
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase and gift from Elizabeth W. Henderson in memory of her husband Francis Tracy Henderson
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- chalk, pencil, ink and watercolor on paper
- Classifications
- Keywords
- Group
- Figure group — male
- Dress — historic — classical dress
- Allegory — life
- Literature — Khayyam, Omar — Rubaiyat
- Object — other — dish
- Object Number
- 1978.108.47