Artworks · Elihu Vedder

Self-Portrait: Caricatures

1918 · charcoal and pastel on wove paper

sheet: 12.8 × 13.8 cm (5 1/16 × 5 7/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Five Heads

1918 · pen and ink and watercolor on 5 sheets of wove paper mounted to folded wove paper

sheet: 14.1 × 21.2 cm (5 9/16 × 8 3/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Capri

1914 · pastel and charcoal on wove paper

image: 24.5 × 11.3 cm (9 5/8 × 4 7/16 in.) sheet: 32.4 × 23.4 cm (12 3/4 × 9 3/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Capri

1913 · pastel and charcoal on dark gray wove paper

sheet: 29.9 × 17.3 cm (11 3/4 × 6 13/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Capri

1913 · pastel on gray wove paper

sheet: 30.1 × 15.3 cm (11 7/8 × 6 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Ground Floor Plan for Torre Quatro Venti

1905 · pen and ink and colored pencil on wove paper

sheet: 27.4 × 21.4 cm (10 13/16 × 8 7/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Roman Landscape

1900 · colored chalks on green wove paper

sheet: 16.3 × 31.8 cm (6 7/16 × 12 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Boy

1900 · Bronze

106.7 × (diam. of pan on figure's head) 53 cm (42 × 20 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Muse of Tragedy

1899 · pastel

sight 15 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. (38.7 x 23.5 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Dawn

1898 · crayon, gouache, gold paint, and graphite over silver gelatin developed-out print mounted to board

sheet: 37.9 x 23 cm (14 15/16 x 9 1/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Sketch of a Fragment from a Wall in Capri

1897 · graphite on brown wove paper

overall: 11.6 x 15.8 cm (4 9/16 x 6 1/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Girl Spearing Dolphin

1895 · charcoal and chalk on two sheets of adhered wove paper

sheet (overall): 43.82 × 30.8 cm (17 1/4 × 12 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Girl Spearing Dolphin

1895 · charcoal and chalk on green wove paper

sheet: 43.97 × 30.48 cm (17 5/16 × 12 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Girl Spearing Dolphin

1895 · charcoal and chalk on wove paper

sheet: 41.59 × 30.96 cm (16 3/8 × 12 3/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Study of a Female Nude

1892 · charcoal on wove paper

sheet: 33.02 × 28.89 cm (13 × 11 3/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Study for "The Eclipse of the Sun by the Moon"

1892 · charcoal and chalk on green wove paper

sheet (irregular): 31.75 × 48.26 cm (12 1/2 × 19 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Study for "Astronomy"

1892 · charcoal and chalk on gray wove paper

sheet: 27.31 × 38.89 cm (10 3/4 × 15 5/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Study for "Astronomy"

1892 · charcoal with colored chalk on wove paper

sheet: 28.89 × 33.02 cm (11 3/8 × 13 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Drawing for Star of Fortune

1892 · crayon and black chalk on brown paper

sheet: 19 × 18.7 cm (7 1/2 × 7 3/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Nile Journey, Colossi of Memnon

1890 · colored chalk on blue wove paper

sheet: 20.32 × 32.7 cm (8 × 12 7/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Nile Journey, Manfalout, Through Spyglass

1890 · colored chalk on wove paper

sheet: 19.37 × 32.07 cm (7 5/8 × 12 5/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Nile Journey, Feluccas (recto)

1890 · colored chalk on blue paper

sheet: 24.77 × 20.32 cm (9 3/4 × 8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Nile Journey

1890 · colored chalk on blue wove paper

sheet: 15.88 × 20.32 cm (6 1/4 × 8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Nile Journey, No. 22

1890 · charcoal and crayon on gray wove paper

sheet: 20.32 × 31.75 cm (8 × 12 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Nile Journey, No. 20

1890 · charcoal and crayon on blue-gray wove paper

sheet: 20.64 × 32.86 cm (8 1/8 × 12 15/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Nile Journey, No. 15

1890 · crayon on blue wove paper

sheet: 20.32 × 32.54 cm (8 × 12 13/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Orvieto

1890 · graphite, crayon and pen and brown ink on gray-green wove paper

sheet: 30.2 × 23.9 cm (11 7/8 × 9 7/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Study for "Music"

1890 · charcoal and pastel over graphite on gray wove paper

overall (diameter): 12.8 cm (5 1/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Arco Oscuro--Over the Via Fiaminia

1890 · graphite on wove paper

sheet: 13.3 × 8.5 cm (5 1/4 × 3 3/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Detail of the Marriage of the Daughter of the Vine

1890 · colored pencil on wove paper

sheet: 30.9 × 21.2 cm (12 3/16 × 8 3/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Nile Journey, Esneh, Egypt

1890 · black chalk on folded blue paper

sheet: 15.3 × 20.3 cm (6 × 8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Nile Journey, Tmui of Ptolemy

1890 · black crayon on green wove paper

sheet: 18.8 × 32.5 cm (7 3/8 × 12 13/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

A Glimpse into Hell, or Fear

1888 · Oil on canvas

40 × 52.4 cm (15 3/4 × 20 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

From the Rubáiyát

1887 · graphite, black and white chalk on wove paper

sheet: 19.1 × 38.1 cm (7 1/2 × 15 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Orte

1887 · watercolor and graphite on wove paper; laid down

support: 15.2 x 23.6 cm (6 x 9 5/16 in.) sheet: 13.8 × 22.3 cm (5 7/16 × 8 3/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Cup of Love

1887 · Oil on wood

12 x 10 in. (25.4 x 30.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Faces in the Fire

1887 · Bronze

31 x 22 1/8 in. (78.7 x 56.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Fates Gathering in the Stars

1887 · Oil on canvas

113 × 82.6 cm (44 1/2 × 32 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Cup of Death

1885 · oil on canvas

44 7/8 x 22 1/2 in. (113.9 x 57.0 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Study for "The Fates Gathering in the Stars"

1884 · charcoal and chalk on gray wove paper

sheet: 32.54 × 19.21 cm (12 13/16 × 7 9/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Study for "The Fates Gathering in the Stars"

1884 · charcoal and chalk on gray wove paper

sheet: 24.13 × 26.99 cm (9 1/2 × 10 5/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Study for "The Fates Gathering in the Stars"

1884 · charcoal and chalk on gray wove paper

sheet: 28.1 × 22.54 cm (11 1/16 × 8 7/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Study for "The Fates Gathering in the Stars"

1884 · charcoal and chalk on gray wove paper

sheet: 35.24 × 25.24 cm (13 7/8 × 9 15/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Study for "The Fates Gathering in the Stars"

1884 · charcoal and chalk on wove paper

sheet: 21.27 × 13.34 cm (8 3/8 × 5 1/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Magdalene

1884 · crayon, gouache, gold paint, and graphite over silver gelatin developed-out print mounted to board

Overall: 20.3 x 25.4 cm (8 x 10 in.) overall: 35.7 x 37.6 cm (14 1/16 x 14 13/16 in.) overall: 54.6 x 57.2 cm (21 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

1884 · book

17 1/2 x 15 1/2 x 2 in. (44.5 x 39.4 x 5.1 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Figure Study for Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

1884 · Black wax crayon and a variety of colored wax crayons with graphite and touches of gold pigment, heightened with white gouache on blue wove paper (discolored) laid down on tan board

64.9 × 46.6 cm (25 9/16 × 18 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Cup of Despair

1883 · chalk, pencil, watercolor and ink on paper

sheet: 13 1/8 x 10 in. (33.3 x 25.5 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum