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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Drunkard Beset by Vermin
1914
Black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
10 1/2 x 7 3/16 inches (266 x 183 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1501
Notes:
Original drawing for an illustration for George Outram's Legal and other lyrics. London : T.N. Foulis, 1916.
Inscription:
Inscribed and dated at lower right of drawing, "Edmund J. Sullivan 1914"; inscribed in pencil at top, "Drawing to Outram's lyrics, (dated 1914)"; at bottom, "Snakes, scorpions, beetles, strange caterpillars, spiders, daddy longlegs[?]".
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows a disheveled and inebriated old Scotsman wearing a Tam O'Shanter and clinging to a tree for support as he wards off a swarm of snakes, scorpions, centipedes, beetles, and other vermin.
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