Edmund Joseph Sullivan
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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
A Dream of Fair Women
1899
Black ink and pencil, on illustration board.
15 5/8 x 10 3/4 inches (396 x 273 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1426
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Title from publication.
Original drawing for an illustration for Tennyson's "A dream of fair women & other poems," London : Grant Richards, 1900, p. 13.
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Signed and dated at lower right in pen and black ink, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 99"; with directions and specifications to the printer inscribed in the margins in pencil.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows Cleopatra baring her breast to reveal the bite of the asp.
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