Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Here sits the butler with a flask ...

Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933

Here sits the butler with a flask ...

1899
13 7/16 x 10 7/16 inches (341 x 266 mm)
Pen and black ink and graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1430

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Title from publication.
Original drawing for an illustration for Tennyson's poem "The day-dream," as it appeared in A dream of fair women & other poems, London : Grant Richards, 1900, p. 137.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at lower right in pen and black ink, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 99"; notes specifying colors to be added to the composition inscribed in the right hand margin in pencil; pencil sketch of a man and woman in pencil on verso, with "Tennyson, "The Day Dream" inscribed in ink.
Classification
Century Drawings