Edmund Joseph Sullivan

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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Tom Patch the Tinker With a Saw
1924
Pen and black ink over graphite, on paper mounted on illustration board.
image: 8 x 6 9/16 inches (204 x 167 mm); on board: 16 x 11 inches (406 x 280 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1719
Notes: 

Title devised by cataloger.
Original drawing, evidently created for an unpublished illustration for a short story by the artist entitled "A corner of England", published in an anthology entitled: In autumn's sickle. London : E. Mathews, 1925.

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Signed and dated by the artist's at lower right, "Edmund J. Sullivan 1924".

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

Drawing shows two men in a wooded setting, one well dressed and seated with a cane, accompanied by the enraged figure of Tom Patch, who stands at right, dressed in work clothes and holding a saw over his head as he raises his arms in anger.

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