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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Legal and Other Lyrics
1914
Black ink and watercolor over graphite, on illustration board.
10 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches (266 x 184 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1498
Notes:
Original watercolor drawing for a color frontispiece illustration for George Outram's Legal and other lyrics. London : T.N. Foulis, 1916.
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Inscribed and dated at bottom of drawing, "Edmund J. Sullivan 1914"; inscribed in pencil at top, "Frontispiece."
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows a man in court robes seated in an office, with his spectacles pushed up to his forehead and his head resting in his right hand, as he gazes at a court wig on a wooden wig stand which he holds up in his left hand.
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