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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
The aged knight's last hour drew on apace
1908
Pen and black ink and pencil, on illustration board.
10 9/16 x 7 1/4 inches (268 x 183 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1377
Notes:
Title from published caption.
Original drawing for an illustration for A.C. Farqharson's translation of La Motte Fouqué's Sintram & his companions, London : Methuen & Co., 1908, p. 185 (facing).
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Signed at upper left in pen and brown ink, "Edmund J. Sullivan 1908".
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows Sintram seated beside his father Biörn who sits up in bed with Sintram's dog on his left and a chaplain reading over him at right.
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