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The Cup of Death by Elihu Vedder (1885)
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perishthethought piefed.social perishthethought@piefed.social
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Elihu Vedder was an American symbolist painter, book illustrator, and poet, born in New York City. He is best known for his fifty-five illustrations for Edward FitzGerald's translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (deluxe edition, published by Houghton Mifflin).

More: https://artvee.com/artist/elihu-vedder/

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Korval lemmy.today Korval@lemmy.today
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rottenmummy lemmy.ml rottenmummy@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-03-28
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Beautiful

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JohnnyEnzyme piefed.social JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
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Wonderful.

Somehow it reminds me a bit of this Moebius art which I posted a couple years ago to my sub.

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perishthethought Moderator perishthethought@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-07
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Wonderful. Somehow it reminds me a bit of this Moebius art which I posted a couple years ago to my sub.

Thanks but wow, I would not have guessed that drawing was by Moebius. Love seeing artists outside their most popular styles.

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AllNewTypeFace leminal.space AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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Looks like the cover of a record that makes Sleep’s “Dopesmoker” sound like Belle & Sebastian.

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