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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
The Tomb of Sarah
1900
Pen and black ink and ink wash, touched with white and gray, on illustration board.
12 3/4 x 7 3/8 inches (322 x 186 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1542
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Original drawing by E.J. Sullivan for an illustration for F.G. Loring's short story, "The tomb of Sarah," as it was published with Sullivan's illustrations in the Pall Mall magazine, v. 22, 1900, p. 478.
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Signed and dated in gray at lower right, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1900"; in pencil on verso, "Tomb of Sarah."
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows the face of the vampire Sarah emerging from the dark.
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