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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
"See here, old man Usher," shouted the being in the red handkerchief ...
1913
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
14 15/16 x 10 3/4 inches (380 x 273 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1466
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Original drawing for an illustration for G.K. Chesterton's short story "The mistake of the machine," from The wisdom of Father Brown; as the story first appeared with Sullivan's illustrations in the Pall Mall magazine, Oct., 1913.
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Signed and dated at upper left, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1913"; inscribed in ink at top, "See here, old man Usher," shouted the being in the red handkerchief. "I'm getting tired-I reckon I'm not a man with no pull." The Mistake of the Machine. II.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows a heavily bearded man in tattered clothes barging into an office where a man with a monocle stands to confront him across a desk; in the background, Father Brown sits in a chair, fingertips together, observing the scene.
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