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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
And while on all sides breaking loose her household fled the danger, quoth she, "The Devil take the goose, and God forget the stranger!"
1899
Pen and black ink and graphite, on illustration board.
14 15/16 x 10 1/2 inches (380 x 267 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1436
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Title from publication.
Original drawing for an illustration for Tennyson's poem "The goose," as it appeared in A dream of fair women & other poems, London : Grant Richards, 1900, p. 199.
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Signed and dated at lower right in pen and black ink, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 99".
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows the old woman standing in the street as the stranger departs with the goose under his arm.
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