Edmund Joseph Sullivan

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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
"Flee, or die!"
1907
Pen and black ink and pencil, on illustration board.
10 3/4 x 7 5/8 inches (273 x 194 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1375
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Title from published caption.
Original drawing for an illustration for A.C. Farqharson's translation of La Motte Fouqué's Sintram & his companions, London : Methuen & Co., 1908, p. 166 (facing).

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Signed and dated at lower right in pen and black ink, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1907".

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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Drawing shows Sintram driving away the Devil/dwarf while his father Biörn looks on in dismay.

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