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Cup of Love
Elihu Vedder1887
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: Cup of Love
- Creator: Elihu Vedder
- Date Created: 1887
- Subject Keywords: love, studies (visual works)
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Unsigned; inscribed on side of wall (or sarcophagus lid?) in image, lettering of line 47 of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: “…Perplex no more with Human or Divine / Tomorrow’s tangle to the winds resign….”
- Object Type: Drawings, works of art
- Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
- Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1955
- Materials & Techniques: Charcoal and white chalk drawing on grey paper. Watermark: No watermark
- Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
- Edition: Preliminary compositional study
- Dimensions: 1923
- Associated People: Created by Elihu Vedder (American, 1836-1923)
- Accession Number: 1955.7.1.5
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