print email comment close Elihu Vedder's Drawings for the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám URL: http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/vedder/index.html Description: American artist Elihu Vedder was one of the many artists captivated by Edward FitzGerald's translation of the "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám." Houghton Mifflin's 1884 publication of the work with Vedder's illustrations, one of the most successful editions of the work, is reproduced here. There is also a brief biography of Vedder and an essay on the work. Publisher: Smithsonian American Art Museum Extra Keywords rubaiyat khayyam Library of Congress Subject Headings: Artists -- United States Book designers Omar Khayyam. RubŻa`ŻiyŻat -- Illustrations Vedder, Elihu, 1836-1923 LII Database Information: Record 3371 created by Martha Gifford on 02/28/2002 Last modification on 10/12/2009 Last review by Charlotte Bagby on 02/27/2007 Published: 02/28/2002   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/3371