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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
The 26th & 27th of last March were very hot days, so sultry that everybody complained
1900
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
15 5/8 x 10 15/16 inches (397 x 277 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1455
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Title from caption and published caption list.
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. 117.
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Signed and dated at lower left, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1900"; inscribed "p. 281" at bottom in pencil.
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows a man, presumably intended to represent the author, standing on a garden path and carrying a watering can in one hand as he mops his brow with the other.
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