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"Why are you a nun?" "Such nonsense!" said Flora. "I'm a sick nurse"

Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933

"Why are you a nun?" "Such nonsense!" said Flora. "I'm a sick nurse"

1927
14 11/16 x 10 3/8 inches (374 x 265 mm)
Black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1496

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, "The misadventures of John Nicholson (p. 189) 'Why are you a nun?' 'Such nonsense!' said Flora. 'I'm a sick nurse.'"
Classification
Century Drawings