Omar Khayyam

37.5 x 27 cm (14.5 x 10.75 inches)

Chromolithograph by Max Beerbohm . Made in 1904.
He was hailed by The Times in 1913 as "the greatest of English comic artists". Collections of Beerbohm's caricatures are in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; the Tate collection; the Victoria and Albert Museum; University of California; Princeton University and Harvard University.