Edmund Joseph Sullivan

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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Weir of Hermiston
1927
Black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
14 11/16 x 10 5/8 inches (373 x 271 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1481
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Title from inscription on verso.
Original drawing for a frontispiece illustration for Robert Louis Stevenson's unfinished novel "Weir of Hermiston," published in, Weir of Hermiston. The misadventures of John Nicholson. London : Macmillan, 1928.

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Inscribed and dated at upper right, "E.J. Sullivan 27"; inscribed in pen on verso, "Weir of Hermiston (frontispiece) for colour."; measurement below in pencil indicating width of printed illustration.

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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Drawing shows the young Archie Weir standing in front of a fireplace and holding up a candle to a portrait of his father.

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