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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
A Vision of Sin
1914
Pen and black ink and graphite, on illustration board.
Image: 16 3/8 x 11 9/16 inches (415 x 293 mm); on board: 21 x 14 3/4 inches (535 x 374 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1752
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Drawing probably intended for an illustration for an unidentified publication.
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Signed and dated at bottom, "Edmund J. Sullivan 1914"; caption in ink below drawing reads, "II. A Vision of Sin. "What I aspired to be, / And was not, comforts me: / A brute I might have been, but would not sink i'the scale." (Browning)".
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows a mandrill baboon in a zoo holding up its prominent buttocks to the bars of its cage while twisting around to bare its teeth at a man who stands in front of the cage, turning away as he holds his arm across his face in a gesture of horror or disgust. A sign on the bars above reads, "Warning do not pass the barrier"; a sign below reads, "Mandrill papio maimon. This animal is vicious."
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