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It was not Alan who lay there ... it was no drunkard, for the body lay in a black pool of blood, and the open eyes stared upon the ceiling

Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933

It was not Alan who lay there ... it was no drunkard, for the body lay in a black pool of blood, and the open eyes stared upon the ceiling

1927
14 3/4 x 10 7/16 inches (374 x 266 mm)
Black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1495

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Caption title.
Original drawing for an illustration for Robert Louis Stevenson's story "The misadventures of John Nicholson," 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 bottom, "John Nicholson. It was not Alan who lay there ... it was no drunkard, for the body lay in a black pool of blood, and the open eyes stared upon the ceiling. p. 173."
Classification
Century Drawings