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Father Brown looked honestly embarrassed, and passed his hand across his forehead

Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933

Father Brown looked honestly embarrassed, and passed his hand across his forehead

1913
14 15/16 x 10 3/4 inches (379 x 273 mm)
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1469

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Caption title.
Original drawing for an illustration for G.K. Chesterton's short story "The strange crime of John Boulnois," from The wisdom of Father Brown; as the story first appeared with Sullivan's illustrations in the Pall Mall magazine, July, 1913.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at lower right, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1913"; inscribed in ink at bottom, "'Father Brown looked honestly embarrassed, and passed his hand across his forehead.' I The strange crime of John Boulnois."; inscribed in ink at top, "Please return drawing when reproduced to Edmund J. Sullivan A.R.W.S 18 Hill Road St. John's Wood, NW. May[?] 9th 1913".
Classification
Century Drawings