《鲁拜集》插图，《列王纪》中的英雄战巨龙

Quatrain IX
But come with old Khayyam, and leave the Lot
Of Kaikobad and Kaikhosru forgot:
Let Rustam lay about him as he will,
Or Haitim Tai cry Supper – heed them not

Watercolour with touches of gouache on (old) Fabriano Artistico watercolour paper, 280 x 200mm.

lllustration for the 150th anniversary edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, published by The Folio Society, 2009 (edition sold out*).