Edmund J. SULLIVAN (1869-1933) skeleton steals and breaks the glass of a drinker: illustration for "Rubaiyat" (quatrains) composed by the mathematician; philosopher and Persian poet Omar Khayyam (1048-1131); edition translated by Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883); who gave an interpretation in key hedonistic and epicurean getting - despite the lack of fidelity to the original text - a wide popularity; however; that does not work valued aspects philosophical; mystical and scientific sought by the author . London; Methuen; 1913