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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
In silence he knelt before his mother
1907-1908
Pen and black ink and pencil, on illustration board.
10 3/4 x 7 5/8 inches (272 x 194 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1378
Notes:
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. 187 (facing).
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Signed at lower left in pen and brown ink, "Edmund J. Sullivan 1907-8"; inscribed in pen on verso, "Sintram. 'In silence he knelt before his mother'. Repro Thorpe p. 78."
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows Sintram kneeling before his mother with his face in his hands, as his mother, dressed in a nun's habit, reaches out to bless him.
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