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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
The Critical Pen
1898
Pen and black ink and graphite, on illustration board.
2 3/4 x 5 13/16 inches (71 x 149 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1439
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Title from published list of illustrations.
Original drawing for a chapter headpiece illustration for Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus, London : George Bell & Sons, 1898, p. 261.
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Signed and dated at upper right "Edmund J. Sullivan /98"; inscribed in pencil on verso, "Begun June 3."
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows a book standing on its foredge, pierced through with a quill pen, and copiously bleeding ink.
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