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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
"Fool, indeed! ... or I'll forfeit the box"
1914
Watercolor over graphite, on illustration board.
14 11/16 x 10 9/16 inches (374 x 268 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1519
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Title from published caption list.
Original watercolor drawing by E.J. Sullivan for an illustration for George Borrow's Lavengro, the scholar, the gypsy, the priest. London : T.N. Foulis, 1914, p. 8.
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Signed and dated at top, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1914".
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows a Jewish peddler with a stack of hats perched on his head and his tray of wares suspended from a strap around his neck.
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