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In silence he knelt before his mother

Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933

In silence he knelt before his mother

1907-1908
10 3/4 x 7 5/8 inches (272 x 194 mm)
Pen and black ink and pencil, on illustration board.
1986.1378

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

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).
Inscriptions/Markings
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."
Classification
Century Drawings