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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Fool and Lover in the Queen's Bed Chamber
1923
Pen and black ink and graphite, on illustration board.
14 3/4 x 16 1/2 inches (374 x 419 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1754
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Title devised by cataloger.
Drawing probably intended for an illustration for an unidentified publication.
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Signed and dated at upper right, "Edmund J. Sullivan 1923".
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows an opulent 18th century bed chamber, where a woman sleeps with her long hair in ribbons and a crown on a footstool at her bedside. Behind her bed stands a second woman in a large wig, holding the fingers of one hand to her lips, while at right a lavishly dressed man holding up a monocle enters the room on tip toe. Seated in the foreground of the design at center is the figure of a fool with a cello (?) behind him, surrounded with a halo of black lines and a tangle of black weeds, with his eyes closed and an expression of anguish on his face.
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