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Father Time and Death Beside the Tomb of a Lady

Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933

Father Time and Death Beside the Tomb of a Lady

1912
10 7/16 x 7 3/16 inches (265 x 183 mm)
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1459

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Original drawing for an illustration for quatrain 22 of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Edward FitzGerald, trans., London : Methuen & Co., 1913.
Illustration for quatrain beginning: And we, that now make merry in the Room They left, and Summer dresses in new bloom...
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at lower right, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1912"; inscribed "XXII" at bottom in pencil; printed label on verso with text of quatrain 22.
Classification
Century Drawings