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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Two Sheep
1900
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
5 7/8 x 9 1/16 inches (150 x 230 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1453
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Original drawing for a headpiece illustration for Gilbert White's The natural history & antiquities of Selborne & A garden kalendar. London : S.T. Freemantle, 1900, v. 2, p. 58.
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Signed and dated at lower right, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1900"; inscribed "Letter XVII" at bottom in pencil, along with marks specifying printed dimensions.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows two sheep, one with horns and the other without, facing one another from opposite sides of a small gulley formed by a stream.
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