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"I cannot bear it!" she cried

Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933

"I cannot bear it!" she cried

1899
15 5/8 x 10 11/16 inches (398 x 272 mm)
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1540

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Title from published caption.
Original drawing by E.J. Sullivan for an illustration for "Underneath," the fourth chapter of the H.G. Wells novella, A story of the days to come, as it was published with Sullivan's illustrations in the Pall Mall magazine, v. 19, 1899, p. 93.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at lower right, "Edmund J. Sullivan. / 99"; at bottom, "Underneath. IV."; stamp of Pall Mall Magazine on verso.
Classification
Century Drawings