Edmund J. Sullivan's illustration to verse 29 of Fitzgerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1913). Source: Internet Archive version of a book from an unidentified library. Note that young Omar Khayyám is portrayed coming out of a door over which Sullivan has inscribed “Athenaeum, ” the name of the famous London club to which many clergymen, authors, and artists belonged. [Click on image to enlarge it.]
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Formatting and text by George P. Landow. [You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the Internet Archive and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one.]
Bibliography
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám translated by Edward FitzGerald. New York: Illustrated Editions Company, nd. [Originally published in London by Methuen in 1913]. Internet Archive version. Web. 23 December 2012.
Last modified 23 December 2012