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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
"I am willing to encourage merit, sir; ... I have determined that you shall translate my book of philosophy"
1914
Watercolor over graphite, on illustration board.
14 3/8 x 10 7/16 inches (365 x 265 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1523
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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. 240.
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Signed and dated at top, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1914".
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows a portly, gray-haired man, in a gold and blue robe with red trim, leaning against a mantlepiece, with his head resting against his forefingers and his spectacles pushed up to his forehead.
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