Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
How Near Men Might Come to the High Distances of Gods
1905
15 1/8 x 10 11/16 inches (385 x 271 mm)
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1513
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from published volume's list of illustrations.
Original drawing for an illustration for H.G. Wells' "A Modern Utopia," London : Chapman & Hall, 1905, p. 258 (facing).
Original drawing for an illustration for H.G. Wells' "A Modern Utopia," London : Chapman & Hall, 1905, p. 258 (facing).
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Signed and dated in ink at lower right, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1905"; at top, "'A Modern Utopia' A white haired man who followed the rule in spite of his one hundred & eleven years. (74 [section sign] 7)".
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