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Edmund J. Sullivan
1869-1933
I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood (preliminary drawing)
1922
Black ink and pencil, on paper.
10 1/8 x 7 15/16 inches (258 x 201 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1421
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Title from published volume's list of illustrations.
Original preliminary drawing for a variant design for a headpiece illustration for Tennyson's "Maud," London : Macmillan & Co., 1922, p. 3.
Summary:
Drawing shows the figure of a man crouched on a crooked tree leaning over the "dreadful hollow" of the poem's first line.
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