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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
The Man in Black
1914
Watercolor over graphite, on illustration board.
14 7/16 x 10 7/16 inches (367 x 265 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1528
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Signed and dated at lower left, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1914".
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Title from published caption list.
Original watercolor drawing by E.J. Sullivan for an illustration for George Borrow's Lavengro, the scholar, the gypsy, the priest. London : T.N. Foulis, 1914, p. 600.
Summary:
Drawing shows a man dressed in a black hat and topcoat and holding a cane behind his back as he strides through a field with yellow flowers.
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