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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
"Youthful hopes, by scores, to all when the locks are crisp and curl'd; unto me my maudlin gall and my mockeries of the world"
1899
Pen and black ink and graphite, on illustration board.
8 1/8 x 8 inches (206 x 203 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1429
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Title from publication.
Original drawing for an illustration for Tennyson's poem "The vision of sin," as it appeared in A dream of fair women & other poems, London : Grant Richards, 1900, p. 109.
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Signed and dated at upper right in pen and black ink, "Edmund J. Sullivan / 99"; inscription on a label affixed to verso reads, "Vice [illegible] Tennyson's "Vision of sin." Edmund J. Sullivan 30 Belsize Grove London; in pencil below that, "No. 9".
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows two hideous old men at a table helping themselves to punch from a punchbowl and spilling it liberally on the table as one of them attempts to fill their glasses.
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