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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
The Reform Bill
1914
Black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
10 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches (266 x 184 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1500
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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, "The Reform Bill".
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows an old man in tattered clothes, reading a newspaper as he stands with his back to an old woman, who gestures to the paper excitedly with her hand on her hip.
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