Edmund Joseph Sullivan

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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Why sits he here in his father's chair? ... that huge scapegoat of the race
1922
Black ink and pencil, on illustration board.
7 3/8 x 10 1/2 inches (187 x 267 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1387
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Title from published volume's list of illustrations.
Original drawing for a headpiece illustration for Tennyson's "Maud," London : Macmillan & Co., 1922, p. 39.

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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Drawing shows a man seated at a table in the act of pouring himself a glass of liquor, his arm thrown around a goat which stands at his side at right; beside him sits another man smoking a cigar.

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