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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by ...
1921
Black ink and pencil, on paper.
12 9/16 x 10 inches (318 x 255 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1401
Notes:
Title from published volume's list of illustrations.
Original drawing for an illustration for Tennyson's "Maud," London : Macmillan & Co., 1922, p. 7.
Inscription:
Signed and dated in ink by the artist at bottom right: Edmund J. Sullivan. 1921; inscribed in pencil on verso: Maud, section I.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows the winged female figure of Peace sitting asleep beneath a tree while a portly man kneels in worship before her with a pig at his side; he is kneeling on a stack of volumes as he clasps his hands over an open ledger with inkpot on a bookstand in front of him; an open checkbook lies on the ground and two roosters fight in the foreground.
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