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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
The Annuity
1914
Black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
10 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches (266 x 184 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1503
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Caption title.
Original drawing for an illustration for George Outram's Legal and other lyrics. London : T.N. Foulis, 1916.
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Inscribed and dated at lower left of drawing, "Edmund J. Sullivan 1914"; inscribed in pencil at top, "The Annuity"; at bottom, "An' there she sits upon my back, a livin' perpetuity".
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows a man dressed in tattered clothes, walking through the rain and bent double under the burden of an old woman who sits on his back holding an umbrella.
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