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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
This time he did not fall into a little meadow just beneath; but fell a thousand feet below, a wreck of bones in the valley
1913
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
14 15/16 x 10 13/16 inches (379 x 274 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1468
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Original drawing for an illustration for G.K. Chesterton's short story "The paradise of thieves," from The wisdom of Father Brown; as the story first appeared with Sullivan's illustrations in the Pall Mall magazine, Aug., 1913.
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Signed and dated at lower left, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1913"; inscribed in ink at bottom, "'This time he did not fall into a little meadow just beneath; but fell a thousand feet below, a wreck of bones in the valley."
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows the body of a man lying wedged between the base of a dead tree and the face of a cliff above a river valley; a raven perches on the tree and surveys the body as a second raven approaches on the wing.
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