Edmund Joseph Sullivan
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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Then she rode forth, clothed only with chastity ...
1899
Pen and black ink and graphite, on illustration board.
15 9/16 x 9 13/16 inches (395 x 249 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1431
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Title from publication.
Original drawing for an illustration for Tennyson's poem "Godiva," as it appeared in A dream of fair women & other poems, London : Grant Richards, 1900, p. 159.
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Signed and dated at upper right in pen and black ink, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 99"; printed size specifications and detail sketch of a nose in profile inscribed in the margins.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows Lady Godiva riding naked through the street on her horse.
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