Edmund Joseph Sullivan

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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
"With Earth's first Clay they did, the Last Man's knead ..."
1920
Pen and ink over graphite, on paper, mounted on backing sheet.
15 5/16 x 12 1/2 inches (388 x 319 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1612
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Original drawing by Edmund J. Sullivan, illustrating a passage from Omar Khayyam's Rubāʻīyāt.
Drawing mounted on sheet 21 15/16 x 15 1/16 inches.
Caption continues: "And then of the Last Harvest sow'd the seed; Yea the first Morning of Creation wrote What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read." Omar Khayyam.

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Signed and dated at lower right, "Edmund J. Sullivan, 1920"; typed caption label below mounted drawing reads, "'With Earth's first Clay they did, the Last Man's knead And then of the Last Harvest sow'd the seed; Yea the first Morning of Creation wrote What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.' Omar Khayyam."

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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Drawing shows the globe of the Earth, belted by astrological signs; an angel, accompanied by Death and a Gorgon, blows a trumpet at left, while cherubs drape a garland across the front of the globe, and Father Time, with hourglass and scythe, stands over it, pouring dust upon the Earth from the palm of his hand.

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