Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Death in a Bell Tower
1912
10 7/16 x 7 5/16 inches (265 x 186 mm)
Pen and black ink and charcoal, on illustration board.
1986.1460
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
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Title supplied by cataloger.
Original drawing for an illustration for quatrain 24 of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Edward FitzGerald, trans. London : 260 London : Methuen & Co., 1913.
Illustration for quatrain beginning: Alike for those who for To-day prepare And those that after a To-morrow stare...
Original drawing for an illustration for quatrain 24 of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Edward FitzGerald, trans. London : 260 London : Methuen & Co., 1913.
Illustration for quatrain beginning: Alike for those who for To-day prepare And those that after a To-morrow stare...
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Signed and dated at lower right, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1912"; inscribed in pencil, "XXIV" at bottom, and "Omar. Sand wine, sans song, sans singer and sans end", at top.
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