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Here sits the Butler with a flask [print]

Accession number
PML 147583.27
Creator
Sullivan, Edmund J. (Edmund Joseph), 1869-1933.
Published
[England : s.n., 1899]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Signed by the artist within image at lower right: Edmund J. Sullivan '99.
Proof of an illustration for Tennyson's poem "The day-dream", published in A dream of fair women & other poems, London : Grant Richards, 1900, p. 137.
Description
1 print : photoengraving ; image: 160 x 127 mm; sheet: 283 x 181 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a medieval scene, with the sleeping figure of the butler seated on a cushion at center and leaning against a column, a wine bottle in his lap and wine spilling from a glass in his hand; in the background at right, a page seizes the hand of a lady, while a scholarly old man sits with quill in hand over a book at left.
Classification
Department