(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Loquacious Vessels

Media - 1978.108.47 - SAAM-1978.108.47_2 - 134390
Copied 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
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1978.108.47