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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
"As I read over the lives of these robbers and pickpockets, strange doubts began to arise in my mind about virtue and crime"
1914
Watercolor over graphite, on illustration board.
14 3/8 x 10 3/8 inches (366 x 265 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1518
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Title from published caption list.
Original watercolor drawing by E.J. Sullivan for a frontispiece illustration for George Borrow's Lavengro, the scholar, the gypsy, the priest. London : T.N. Foulis, 1914.
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Signed and dated at top, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1914".
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows a man seated at a table and reading, with a stack of books at his elbow.
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