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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
The Saumon
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.
1986.1506
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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 lower left of drawing, "Edmund J. Sullivan 1914"; inscribed in pencil at top, "The Saumon".
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows a man fishing off the tip of a grassy overhang that has just given way beneath him; he falls forward into the water as an enormous salmon looks up at him and laughs.
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