One Moment in Annihilation's Waste...'
Drawing
1912 (drawn)
1912 (drawn)
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Drawing
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| Title | One Moment in Annihilation's Waste...' (popular title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pen, ink and chalk, on prepared board |
| Brief description | Drawing, Illustration to the Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam: `One Moment in Annihilation's Waste...', 1912, by Edmund Joseph Sullivan RWS |
| Physical description | Drawing |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Signed and dated Edmund J. Sullivan. 1912 |
| Credit line | Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A |
| Object history | According to Rodney Searight: - [SD1009:1-7] `Bt Holder, Oct. 1970 (ex Sale at PSN [Phillips, Son & Neale] £30'. |
| Historical context | Reproduced as the illustration to Quatrain XXXVIII, in the `Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam', trans. Edward Fitzgerald, Methuen, London, 1913. Another of Sullivan's illustrations to the Rubaiyat is in the VAM, DPD, (E.1046-1933). See J.Thorpe, E. J. Sullivan, 1948, p.17 |
| Literary reference | Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam |
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| Accession number | SD.1009:6 |
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| Record created | April 9, 2008 |
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