Elihu Vedder

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Vain Pursuit

1883-1884

Dating

Date range

Held at

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Medium

chalk, pencil, ink and watercolor on paper

Dimensions

sheet: 19 1/8 x 14 3/4 in. (48.5 x 37.4 cm)

Collection no.

1978.108.18

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Elihu Vedder. (Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Vain Pursuit. Elihu Vedder; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase and gift from Elizabeth W. Henderson in memory of her husband Francis Tracy Henderson. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.