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It is Sheer Waste of Suffering

Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933

It is Sheer Waste of Suffering

1905
15 1/8 x 10 11/16 inches (385 x 271 mm)
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1511

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. 185 (facing).
Inscriptions/Markings
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."
Classification
Century Drawings