Title supplied by cataloger.
Original drawing for an illustration for quatrain 16 of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Edward FitzGerald, trans. London : Methuen & Co., 1913.
Illustration for quatrain beginning: Think, in this batter'd Caravanserae Whose Doorways are alternate Night and Day...
Signed and dated at bottom, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1912"; inscribed "XVI" below in pencil.
Drawing shows a military officer, pope, and man in a Roman toga crowned with laurels, all lining up at a gate to board Charon's ferry; a sign overhead reads, "Fare 1 Obolus Ferry Charon { Licensed Ferryman. By order Styx Conservancy." Charon stands beside them at right, lifting a finger to his brow in salute; behind him is a sign for the Globe Tavern, with the entrance shown at left, with a sign over the doorway reading, "Mrs. Bony Face Licensed to sell Aqua Vitæ Consumed on premises", and two signs post on the entrance walls, "Lacrim[a?] Cristi" and "Blue Ruin." A man and a woman dally in a window above, as a weeping cherub sits within the entrance, and a skeleton with a swollen belly stands in the doorway.