Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883), Poet and translator of 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám'

Poet and translator; friend of Tennyson at Trinity College, Cambridge; lived a retired life in Suffolk; famous for his translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, published anonymously, 1859; also translated Sophocles and Calderon.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.