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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Tinker With a Billhook
1924
Pen and black ink over graphite, on paper mounted on illustration board.
Image: 8 1/8 x 6 1/4 inches (207 x 158 mm); on board: 15 15/16 x 11 inches (404 x 280 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1720
Inscription:
Signed and dated by the artist's at lower right, "Edmund J. Sullivan 1924".
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Original drawing evidently created for an unpublished illustration for a short story by the artist entitled "A corner of England", published in a collection entitled: In autumn's sickle. London : E. Mathews, 1925.
Summary:
Drawing shows a bearded man dressed in work clothes, standing in a wooded setting with a billhook in one hand and a tree branch in the other which he holds over a stump which serves as a cutting block; in the background, a grindstone is visible at left.
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