Download image:
Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Gorgon and Chess Board
1912
Pen and black ink and charcoal, on illustration board.
10 7/16 x 7 3/8 inches (265 x 188 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1463
Notes:
Title supplied by cataloger.
Original drawing for an illustration for quatrain 49 of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Edward FitzGerald, trans. London : Methuen & Co., 1913.
Illustration for quatrain beginning: 'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays...
Inscription:
Signed and dated at lower left, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1912"; inscribed in pencil at bottom, "XLIX".
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows a chess board where a gorgon and a celestial hand emerging from a cloud are engaged in a game of chess.
Catalog link:
Artist page:
Century:
Classification:
Department: