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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Was it he lay there with a fading eye? ...
1922
Black ink and pencil, on illustration board.
14 5/8 x 10 1/2 inches (372 x 267 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1413
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Title from published volume's list of illustrations.
Original drawing for an illustration for Tennyson's "Maud," London : Macmillan & Co., 1922, p. 77.
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Drawing shows the narrator, a pistol dropping from his hand, standing over Maud's brother, who lies fatally wounded on the ground with his head supported by a servant; Maud stands wild eyed and distraught behind them while three men react with horror at far right.
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