Elihu Vedder
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Elihu Vedder was an American symbolist painter, book illustrator and poet from New York City. He is best known for his fifty-five illustrations for Edward FitzGerald's translation of The Rubaiyat of O
Vedder in 1870
Daguerreotype of Vedder as a schoolboy in 1847
Dancing Girl, oil on canvas, 1871. Reynolds House Museum of American Art
Soul in Bondage, 1891–92. Brooklyn Museum
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is an 1859 translation from Persian to English by Edward FitzGerald of a selection of quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam, dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia".
Elihu Vedder
…symbolist painter, book illustrator and poet from New York City. He is best known for his fifty-five illustrations for Edward FitzGerald's translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (deluxe edition, published by Houghton Mifflin). Elihu Vedder was born on 26 February 1836 in New York City, the son of Elihu Vedder Sr. and Elizabeth…
Front cover of the first American edition (1878)
A collection of postcards with paintings of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, by Indian artist M. V. Dhurandhar
Calligraphic manuscript page with three of FitzGerald's Rubaiyat written by William Morris, illustration by Edward Burne-Jones (1870s).
Illustration by Adelaide Hanscom (c. 1910).