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Death in a Bell Tower

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.

Notes
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...
Inscriptions/Markings
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.
Classification
Century Drawings