With me along some Strip of Herbage strown
Date1912
Artist
Edmund Joseph Sullivan
(English painter, illustrator, and draftsman, 1869–1933)
Illustration CitationThe Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward FitzGerald (Methuen, 1913)
MediumInk on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 8 9/16 × 7 1/16 in. (21.7 × 17.9 cm)
sheet: 10 7/16 × 7 3/8 in. (26.5 × 18.7 cm)
sheet: 10 7/16 × 7 3/8 in. (26.5 × 18.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1987
Object number1987-129
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextIn this scene, the poet - who refers to himself as old Khayyam - tells his beloved to live for the day.
George Edmund Varian
not dated
