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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
"O! we two as well can look whited thought and cleanly life as the priest, above his book leering at his neighbor's wife"
1899
Pen and black ink and graphite, on illustration board.
9 x 8 1/4 inches (221 x 209 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1428
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Title from publication.
Original drawing for an illustration for Tennyson's poem "The vision of sin," as it appeared in A dream of fair women & other poems, London : Grant Richards, 1900, p. 99.
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Signed and dated at lower left in pen and black ink, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 99"; inscription on verso incorrectly identifies the drawing as an illustration for Tennyson's poem "The goose", included in the same publication.
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows a priest in his pulpit, leering grotesquely over his book.
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