(Man Reading) from the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" by Adelaide Hanscom
(Man Reading) from the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"
Adelaide Hanscom
Title
(Man Reading) from the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"
Artist
Adelaide Hanscom
1876 - 1931 (biography)Year
1905
Technique
photogravure
Image Size
5 3/4 x 3 5/16" image size
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
not stated
Annotations
Reference
Paper
fine wove
State
Publisher
Dodge Publishing Co. 1905
Inventory ID
0517
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.
The model for this photograph was the Berkeley poet Joaquin Miller "Poet of the Sierras" (1837? to 1913).