Edmund Joseph Sullivan
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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Lady Clara Vere de Vere
1899
Pen and black ink and graphite, on illustration board.
15 5/8 x 8 5/16 inches (396 x 211 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1427
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Title from publication.
Original drawing for an illustration for Tennyson's poem "Lady Clara Vere de Vere," as it appeared in A dream of fair women & other poems, London : Grant Richards, 1900, p. 75.
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Signed and dated at lower right in pen and black ink, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 99"; with specifications for the printer indicated in the margins in pencil.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows an aristocratic woman standing on the stone steps of a fine house with a riding crop in her gloved hand.
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