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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Father Time Treading Grapes in a Wine Vat
1912
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
10 7/16 x 7 5/16 inches (265 x 186 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1458
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Title supplied by cataloger.
Original drawing for an illustration for quatrain 21 of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Edward FitzGerald, trans. London : 260 London : Methuen & Co., 1913.
Illustration for quatrain beginning: Lo! some we loved, the loveliest and the best That Time and Fate of all their Vintage prest...
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Signed and dated at lower right, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1912"; inscribed "XXI" above in pencil; printed label on verso with text of quatrain 21.
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows a winged Father Time with his scythe, stomping grapes in a wine vat; a woman lies submerged up to her neck in the vat, and a naked gorgon stands in front of the vat, collecting the pressed juice from a spigot into a bucket.
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