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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Quite a good law library which ... he had been obliged to sell before they were paid for
1927
Black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
14 11/16 x 10 1/2 inches (374 x 267 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1491
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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.
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Inscribed and dated at lower right, "Edmund J. Sullivan 1927"; inscribed in pen at top, "Quite a good law library which ... he had been obliged to sell before they were paid for. (Weir of Hermiston. Chap. VII)'".
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows Frank Innes lounging against a fireplace in a quilted dressing robe, surrounded by stacks of books, and looking on as an elderly man wearing a Tam o'Shanter ties up one pile of volumes with a string.
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