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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Soumin an' Roumin
1914
Black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
10 1/2 x 7 3/16 inches (266 x 183 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1499
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Original drawing for an illustration for George Outram's Legal and other lyrics. London : T.N. Foulis, 1916.
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Inscribed and dated at bottom of drawing, "Edmund J. Sullivan 1914"; inscribed in pencil at top, "Soumin an' roumin".
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows an old woman in a farmyard surrounded by livestock fleeing three monstrous lawyers wearing wigs and robes and armed with hideous talons instead of hands and feet. One of them leads the old woman away by the arm, as another chases a cow with a scourge, the thongs of which end in scorpians.
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