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He swung up the heavy steel again; and this time sundered the wall of wood from top to bottom at one stroke

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
14 5/16 x 10 1/2 inches (364 x 266 mm)
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1478

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Caption title.
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.
Inscriptions/Markings
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."
Classification
Century Drawings