Above is the Ivory open-edition. These prints are signed and editioned “o/e”—we will continue to offer them as long as Heads want them. The paper has a bit more color. The inks match the original very closely, though as with any split-fountain they’ll vary somewhat along the print run and from one run to the next. Which is pretty cool, we think.
Sullivan’s skeleton was originally published in 1859 accompanying a poem in Edward Fitzgerald’s first edition of his English translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, an 11/12th-century Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and poet.
This poem appears in a later revision of the Rubáiyát translation and isn’t accompanied by Sullivan’s skeleton, but it felt right for the piece:
‘Oh, threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!
One thing at least is certain — This Life flies
One thing is certain, and the rest is Lies;
The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.’
Rainbow foil editions, black (#/51) and white (#/29):
Rainbow main/color edition (#/15 sold-out):
