Edmund Joseph Sullivan
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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Bird's Nest
1900
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
6 1/8 x 9 5/16 inches (157 x 237 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1448
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Original drawing for a tailpiece illustration for Gilbert White's The natural history & antiquities of Selborne & a garden kalendar. London : S.T. Freemantle, 1900, v. 1, p. 88.
Taped and matted into a double mat with a second drawing by Sullivan (1986.1447).
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Signed and dated at lower left, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1900; outlines of a graphite sketch on verso.
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows four black birds on a large nest situated in the fork of a tree.
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