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Book Illustration for Omar Khayyam’s ‘Rubaiyat’

Jessie M. King

Book Illustration for Omar Khayyam’s ‘Rubaiyat’

1897

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Jessie M. King

Book Illustration for Omar Khayyam’s ‘Rubaiyat’

1897

Physical Qualities Pen and black ink and black chalk on vellum, Sheet: 180 × 133 mm. (7 1/16 × 5 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Purchase with exchange funds from Nelson and Juanita Greif Gutman Collection
Object Number 1973.12
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the
Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.

BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.

BMA, "English Drawings and Watercolors: 1700-1900" 21 September - 26 October 1975
Carlson, Victor, and Carol Hynning Smith. Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Baltimore Museum of Art. New York, NY: The American Federation of Arts, 1979, pp. 75, ill.
Baltimore Museum of Art. Art Nouveau from Maryland Collections [pamphlet]. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, [1979], cat. no. 121, cover.

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Jessie M. King

1875–1947

Scottish, 1876-1948
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