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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
How this same Weigand had fallen asleep like a tired child
1908
Pen and black ink and pencil, on illustration board.
10 9/16 x 7 3/16 inches (268 x 183 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1372
Notes:
Title from published caption.
Original drawing for an illustration for A.C. Farqharson's translation of La Motte Fouqué's Sintram & his companions, London : Methuen & Co., 1908, p. 139 (facing).
Inscription:
Signed and dated at lower left in pen and black ink, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1908".
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows Weigand on his death bed with three candles in the foreground; Verena leans over him with a crucifix as the priest reads the Bible over him.
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