Edmund Joseph Sullivan

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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
The Titan Mirabeau
1910
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
14 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (368 x 267 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1558
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Original drawing by E.J. Sullivan for an illustration for Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution. London : Chapman and Hall, 1910, p. 191.

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Signed and dated at lower left, "Edmund J. Sullivan 1910"; caption at bottom reads: The Titan Mirabeau.

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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Drawing shows the Comte de Mirabeau walking through the waves, bowed under the weight of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, whom he bears upon his shoulders.

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