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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Organic Filaments (chapter heading)
1898
Pen and black ink, China white, and graphite, on illustration board.
4 15/16 x 8 3/8 inches (126 x 213 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1440
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Title supplied by cataloger.
Original drawing for a chapter headpiece illustration for Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus, London : George Bell & Sons, 1898, p. 283.
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Inscribed at bottom in pencil, "This way up!"; inscribed in pencil on verso, "Sartor Resartus, p. 283."
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows a night sky with stars caught in a spider web.
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