Edmund Joseph Sullivan

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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Olivia
1912
Pen and black ink, on paper, mounted on illustration board.
2 7/16 x 1 15/16 inches (62 x 49 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1675
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Title from caption inscribed in ink on mount.
Drawing mounted on a sheet of illustration board, meas. 265 x 390 mm, along with seven additional drawings by Sullivan for illustrations for his illustrated edition of The vicar of Wakefield (see 1986.1673-80).
Original drawing by E.J. Sullivan for an illustration for an edition of Oliver Goldsmith's: The vicar of Wakefield. London : Constable & Co., 1914, p. 95.

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Initialed and dated within design, "E.J.S. 12.".

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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

Drawing shows the head of a young woman, facing the viewer, wearing a choker and her hair swept up in a loose bun.

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