Edmund Joseph Sullivan

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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Was it he lay there with a fading eye? ... (preliminary drawing)
1922
Black ink and pencil, on paper.
8 15/16 x 6 7/8 inches (226 x 174 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1412

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Title from published volume's list of illustrations.
Original preliminary drawing for an illustration for Tennyson's "Maud," London : Macmillan & Co., 1922, p. 77.

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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Drawing shows the narrator, a pistol dropping from his hand as he stands over Maud's brother, who lies the fatally wounded on the ground, his head supported by a servant; Maud stands wild eyed and distraught behind them while three men react with horror at far right.

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