"Indeed the Idols I have love so long..." from the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam", verse XCIII by Adelaide Hanscom
"Indeed the Idols I have love so long..." from the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam", verse XCIII
Adelaide Hanscom
Title
"Indeed the Idols I have love so long..." from the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam", verse XCIII
Artist
Year
1905
Technique
photogravure
Image Size
5 13/16 x 2 11/16" image size
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
signed proof outside the first edition of 250
Annotations
Reference
Paper
fine wove tissue
State
Publisher
Dodge Publishing Co. 1905, New York
Inventory ID
20219
Price
SOLD
Description
Hanscom hand worked the negative to achieve the image she wanted. She was one of the pioneers of this technique.
The text for the printing of the Rubaiyat was translated into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald and was illustrated by Hanscom.
This photogravure proof was from the collection of author George W. James who was one Hanscom's models for the Rubaiyat. The negatives were destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.