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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
"It was a daft like marriage"
1927
Black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
14 11/16 x 10 3/8 inches (373 x 264 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1483
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Original drawing for an illustration for Robert Louis Stevenson's unfinished novel "Weir of Hermiston," published in, Weir of Hermiston. The misadventures of John Nicholson. London : Macmillan, 1928.
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Inscribed and dated at lower right, "Edmund J. Sullivan 1927"; inscribed in pen at top, "Weir of Hermiston. 'It was a daft like marriage'. And then...'Puir bitch,' said he, 'puir bitch!' p. 15."
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows Mr. Weir standing at the bedside of his dead wife, regarding her body with his arms behind his back, as Kirstie the maid stands by the head of the bed at right.
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