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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
It is Sheer Waste of Suffering
1905
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
15 1/8 x 10 11/16 inches (385 x 271 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1511
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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. 185 (facing).
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Signed and dated in ink at lower right, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1905"; at top, "'A Modern Utopia' (45 [section sign] 1) Sheer waste of suffering."
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows a graveyard where three women mourn at graves marked with simple wooden crosses.
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