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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Dead, long dead, long dead! ...
1922
Black ink and pencil, on illustration board.
10 11/16 x 7 9/16 inches (272 x 192 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1396
Notes:
Title from published volume's list of illustrations.
Original drawing for an illustration for Tennyson's "Maud," London : Macmillan & Co., 1922, p. 90 (facing).
Inscription:
Signed at lower left in pen and brown ink, "Edmund J. Sullivan".
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows a man in the act of climbing out of a coffin; above him are the trampling hooves of horses and he is surrounded by the figures of grotesque musicians and screaming or gossiping faces.
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