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With ape like fury he was trampling his victim under foot, and hailing down a storm of blows under which the bones were audibly shattered and the body jumped upon the roadway

Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933

With ape like fury he was trampling his victim under foot, and hailing down a storm of blows under which the bones were audibly shattered and the body jumped upon the roadway

1927
14 11/16 x 10 9/16 inches (373 x 268 mm)
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1549

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Caption title.
Original drawing by E.J. Sullivan for an illustration for Robert Louis Stevenson's, The strange case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. London : Macmillan & Co., 1928.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at bottom, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1927"; captioned in ink on verso, "With ape like fury he was trampling his victim under foot, and hailing down a storm of blows under which the bones were audibly shattered and the body jumped upon the roadway." p. 21.
Classification
Century Drawings