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His eye was caught by certain railway bills, and he calculated that that he might be home for Christmas

Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933

His eye was caught by certain railway bills, and he calculated that that he might be home for Christmas

1927
14 11/16 x 10 7/16 inches (374 x 266 mm)
Black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1493

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Caption title.
Original drawing for an illustration for Robert Louis Stevenson's story "The misadventures of John Nicholson," published in, Weir of Hermiston. The misadventures of John Nicholson. London : Macmillan, 1928.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed and dated at lower right, "Edmund J. Sullivan 1927"; inscribed in pen at bottom, "John Nicholson. His eye was caught by certain railway bills, and he calculated that that he might be home for Christmas... p. 156."
Classification
Century Drawings