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"I fear I break in on some of your scientific studies" "No," said Boulnois. "I was reading 'The bloody thumb"'

Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933

"I fear I break in on some of your scientific studies" "No," said Boulnois. "I was reading 'The bloody thumb"'

1913
14 7/8 x 10 3/4 inches (378 x 273 mm)
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1470

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Caption title.
Original drawing for an illustration for G.K. Chesterton's short story "The strange crime of John Boulnois," from The wisdom of Father Brown; as the story first appeared with Sullivan's illustrations in the Pall Mall magazine, July, 1913.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at lower left, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1913"; inscribed in ink at bottom, "The strange crime of John Boulnois.. II. 'I fear I break in on some of your scientific studies' 'No,' said Boulnois. 'I was reading 'The bloody thumb'"; inscribed in ink at top, "Please return drawing when reproduced to Edmund J. Sullivan A.R.W.S 18 Hill Road St. John's Wood, NW. May[?] 9th 1913".
Classification
Century Drawings