{"id":16036,"date":"2014-11-25T02:35:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T01:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=16036"},"modified":"2014-11-25T02:35:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T01:35:32","slug":"edmund-j-sullivans-rubaiyat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/11\/25\/edmund-j-sullivans-rubaiyat\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmund J. Sullivan&#8217;s Rub\u00e1iy\u00e1t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rubaiyat01.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/rubaiyat01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mention yesterday of Edmund J. Sullivan&#8217;s illustrations for <em>The\u00a0Rub\u00e1iy\u00e1t of Omar Khayyam<\/em> made me realise that I&#8217;d never seen a complete set of Sullivan&#8217;s illustrations for this volume (75 in all) despite one particular drawing (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkstarpalace.com\/2010\/06\/skull-fuck-cover-art.html\" target=\"_blank\">the rose-crowned skeleton<\/a>) being very familiar. Sullivan&#8217;s <em>Rub\u00e1iy\u00e1t<\/em> was published in 1913, and the translation is the Edward Fitzgerald version. These copies aren&#8217;t the best quality but they&#8217;re good enough at a small size to give an idea of Sullivan&#8217;s renderings which feature more occult references than usual for this title. Browse the rest of the pages <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/TheRubaiyatOfOmarKhayyam-FirstVersion-Illustrated#page\/n0\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> or download the book <a href=\"https:\/\/ia600503.us.archive.org\/12\/items\/TheRubaiyatOfOmarKhayyam-FirstVersion-Illustrated\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rubaiyat02.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/rubaiyat02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rubaiyat03.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/rubaiyat03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rubaiyat04.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/rubaiyat04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rubaiyat05.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/rubaiyat05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rubaiyat06.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/rubaiyat06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rubaiyat07.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/rubaiyat07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rubaiyat08.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/rubaiyat08.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rubaiyat09.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/rubaiyat09.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rubaiyat10.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/rubaiyat10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rubaiyat11.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/rubaiyat11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rubaiyat12.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/rubaiyat12.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rubaiyat13.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/rubaiyat13.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rubaiyat14.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/rubaiyat14.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rubaiyat15.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/rubaiyat15.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rubaiyat16.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/rubaiyat16.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rubaiyat17.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/rubaiyat17.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-illustrators-archive\/\">The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/09\/30\/adelaide-hanscoms-rubaiyat\/\">Adelaide Hanscom\u2019s Rub\u00e1iy\u00e1t<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/04\/05\/rene-bulls-rubaiyat\/\">Ren\u00e9 Bull\u2019s Rub\u00e1iy\u00e1t<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/12\/11\/ronald-balfours-rubaiyat\/\">Ronald Balfour\u2019s Rub\u00e1iy\u00e1t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mention yesterday of Edmund J. Sullivan&#8217;s illustrations for The\u00a0Rub\u00e1iy\u00e1t of Omar Khayyam made me realise that I&#8217;d never seen a complete set of Sullivan&#8217;s illustrations for this volume (75 in all) despite one particular drawing (the rose-crowned skeleton) being very familiar. Sullivan&#8217;s Rub\u00e1iy\u00e1t was published in 1913, and the translation is the Edward Fitzgerald version. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/11\/25\/edmund-j-sullivans-rubaiyat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Edmund J. Sullivan&#8217;s Rub\u00e1iy\u00e1t&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,48],"tags":[6715,3752,1617],"class_list":["post-16036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-illustrators","tag-edmund-j-sullivan","tag-edward-fitzgerald","tag-omar-khayyam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4aE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}