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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Organic Filaments
1898
Pen and black ink, China white, and graphite, on illustration board.
7 9/16 x 5 3/4 inches (193 x 147 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1441
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Title from published list of illustrations.
Original drawing for an illustration for Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus, London : George Bell & Sons, 1898, p. 285.
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Inscribed in pencil on verso, "Begun June 6. Sartor Resartus, p. 285".
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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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