Courts of Jamshyd, Illustration for the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

A lion and lioness rest on a shadowed ruined ledge while a lizard crawls across a stone block in the foreground. A handwritten verse from the Rubáiyát is set across the center, with a half-buried figure at lower right, in chalk, pencil, ink and watercolor on paper.

Artist

Elihu Vedder

Date

1883-1884

Medium

chalk, pencil, ink and watercolor on paper

Source

Smithsonian (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

Size

2356 × 3000 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum