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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
He swung up the heavy steel again; and this time sundered the wall of wood from top to bottom at one stroke
1914
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
14 5/16 x 10 1/2 inches (364 x 266 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1478
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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 Perishing of the Pendragons. p. 13 - "He swung up the heavy steel again; and this time sundered the wall of wood from top to bottom at one stroke."
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows Father Brown and two other men looking on as a fourth man attacks a wooden fence with a sword.
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