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Elihu Vedder, (Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) Youth and Age, 1883-1884, chalk, pencil, ink and watercolor on paper, sheet: 17 5⁄8 x 13 1⁄4 in. (44.9 x 33.6 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase and gift from Elizabeth W. Henderson in memory of her husband Francis Tracy Henderson, 1978.108.51
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Artwork Details
- Title
- (Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) Youth and Age
- Artist
- Date
- 1883-1884
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sheet: 17 5⁄8 x 13 1⁄4 in. (44.9 x 33.6 cm)
- Markings
- lower right in chalk: V. center left in pencil: 96/Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose!/That Youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close!/The Nightingale that in the branches sang,/Ah whence, and whither flown again, who knows!
- 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
- Keywords
- Group
- Figure group — female
- Dress — historic — classical dress
- Animal — goat
- Allegory — life
- Literature — Khayyam, Omar — Rubaiyat
- Object — other — dish
- Object Number
- 1978.108.51