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The Cup of Death by Elihu Vedder (1885)

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).

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

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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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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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Beautiful

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