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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
The Tower
1914
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
14 11/16 x 10 1/2 inches (372 x 266 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1477
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Caption title; title continues: They followed him on to the island just under the tower.
Original drawing for an illustration for G.K. Chesterton's short story "The perishing of the Pendragons," from The wisdom of Father Brown; as the story first appeared with Sullivan's illustrations in the Pall Mall magazine, June, 1914.
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Signed and dated at lower left, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1914"; inscribed in ink at bottom, "The Tower. The Perishing of the Pendragons. (G.K. Chesterton). (e.g. They followed him on to the island just under the tower.)"
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows Father Brown and two other men standing at the foot of a tower which is braced by long wooden beams.
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