Edmund Joseph Sullivan

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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Antony & Cleopatra
1906
Charcoal and graphite, on illustration board.
15 3/16 x 10 3/4 inches (385 x 273 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1566
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Original drawing by E.J. Sullivan for an illustration for act IV, scene 4 of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra," published in: Shakespeare's tragedies. London : J.M. Dent & Sons, 1911, p. 796 (facing).

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Signed and dated at lower left, "Edmund J. Sullivan /06"; on verso in ink, "Anthony & Cleopatra."

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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Drawing shows Antony and Cleopatra in a parting embrace, surrounded by soldiers.

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