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"It was a daft like marriage"

Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933

"It was a daft like marriage"

1927
14 11/16 x 10 3/8 inches (373 x 264 mm)
Black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1483

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Caption title.
Original drawing for an illustration for Robert Louis Stevenson's unfinished novel "Weir of Hermiston," published in, Weir of Hermiston. The misadventures of John Nicholson. London : Macmillan, 1928.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed and dated at lower right, "Edmund J. Sullivan 1927"; inscribed in pen at top, "Weir of Hermiston. 'It was a daft like marriage'. And then...'Puir bitch,' said he, 'puir bitch!' p. 15."
Classification
Century Drawings