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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Celestial Motion Lamp
1912
Pen and black ink and charcoal, on illustration board.
10 1/2 x 7 3/8 inches (267 x 188 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1462
Notes:
Original drawing for an illustration for quatrain 46 of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Edward FitzGerald, trans. London : Methuen & Co., 1913.
Illustration for quatrain beginning: For in and out, above, about, below, "Tis nothing but a magic Shadow-show...
Inscription:
Signed and dated at lower right, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1912"; inscribed in pencil at bottom, "XLVI".
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows a rotating motion lamp with a wide shade decorated with the signs of the zodiac, mounted on a handle with a wire operated spindle surmounted by a candle, and held aloft in the sky by a pair hands emerging from the clouds.
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